Award Winning Education Innovation Program teaching 21st Century THINK skills.
NOTE: It is NOT a simple/ordinary chess coaching program, but it does use many chess-based games as a platform for teaching important skills which are not addressed in the school-curriculum. It does teach learners how to play a good game of chess, as an added benefit.
The MiniChess stable of Capacity-building programs is a Game-changer for the 21st Century education – utilizing complex and creative play-innovations to develop critical skills from the early ages, for a sustainable future for humans in the time of smart machines.
It’s YOUR move: SMART START for an empowered mindset & Entrepreneurial future!
Education-innovation
The award-winning MiniChess & MindCo programs were developed by Marisa van der Merwe in South Africa and are now being implemented in 9 countries as well as Online over-borders. She won the Shoprite-Checkers Women of the Year award (Category Education) in 2012, is a recognized international speaker, an Ashoka Fellow, and is a Trustee of The Entrust Foundation (a non-profit PBO, championing community empowerment in disadvantaged communities). The play-based engagement moves over barriers of age, gender, culture, language, and physical abilities – is inter-active, joyful, meaningful, and social, while developing resilience, creativity, thinking/reflection, cooperation, and emotional skills.
GLOBAL
The MiniChess Program-impacts:
- Early Childhood Education – defining the future, not only of individuals and communities but for the Country’s knowledge capital in the 21st Century. Starting early and smart is the only way to harness the most powerful energy in the world: human talent.
- In-Community collaboration and empowerment, through a system of local project-implementers as Micro-Franchisees, forms the key to mobilize a country of social-entrepreneurs – rooted in sustainable leadership and a compelling force for the common good.
- Change-makers in Education are building the global future and, are hereby invited to invest in pattern-breaking, powerful, education-innovations and the people behind them.
MiniChess & MindCo in South Africa has impacted 100,000+ children and 1500+ trained teachers. MiniChess also serves 5 countries in Africa as well as 2 countries in Central Asia, New Zealand & China, with a successful Pilot-program in the USA and starting in Germany.
MiniChess head Office:
541 Saalbek Street, Monument Park Ext 2, Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
For more information, please contact Ronell Jordaan – MiniChess Franchisee & Accredited Trainer
Cell: +27 73 291 0450 | Email: boland@minichessfranchise.com
Website link for MiniChess: www.minichess.co.za
