COLLEGE CHESS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

A large component of the UTD Chess Program involved outreach and service into the surrounding community, state, and nation. UTD scholarship team members serve in many various capacities, such as tutoring young scholastic chess players.

They contribute volunteer service hours each semester at various activities and events. These volunteer service hours, as well as GPAs above 3.0, are part of their scholarship requirements to play on the UTD Chess Team.

Dr. Agboola Fatiregun, at left, makes a move Saturday in a chess match with Collins Catholic School student Roy Ward. The chess club was treated to a lesson by chessmaster Davorin Kuljasevic, a 22-year-old Croatian student at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Daily Sun photo/Bob Belcher

Some of the events, such as the DISD HS Scholarship Tournament and the Dallas-Area-Chess-in-the-Schools (DACIS) Scholarship Tournament, listed below are sponsored by the UTD Chess Program.

We think it is important that these non-competitive, less heralded activities of the UTD Chess Team be more widely known.

Other College Chess Community Engagement Programs

View the outreach programs of other college chess programs here.