Scott Plaster, who teaches at Atkins Academic & Technology High
School and coaches the chess team, has received the “Citizen Diplomacy Award” from
the Winston-Salem Sister Cities organization. Team members and their families
were guests of honor at the annual banquet.
Plaster was instrumental for his creation of and involvement in
the global chess partnership between Atkins HS, Freeport, Bahamas, and Ungheni,
Moldolva, in which the students played “correspondence” chess through an online
chess website.
“It’s the first time anyone has ever done that,” said Sister
Cities International Chairman Dave Van Pelt.
It was the first-ever international chess tournament between
schools, but then something even more powerful happened. The students from
Bishop Michael Eldon School, Freeport, Grand Bahama led by coach Shawn Sorsby,
actually came all the way to Winston-Salem to visit and play the Atkins HS team
in person. The initiative was nominated for a Sister Cities International
“Innovation” award and came in third in the annual worldwide competition.
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