[News] New student/novice player schedule starts!

Pasadena Bridge Club Logo <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> News from North Fair Oaks Mojo ABTA Master Teacher 649 N Fair Oaks Ave #201 Pasadena CA 91103 (626) 247-4457 pasadenabridgeclub.com <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com> I spent this past weekend in Costa Mesa as an exhibitor for a conference hosted by the California Association for the Gifted. I was representing Patty Tucker's /Jump Start Bridge/ program that mentors teachers to introduce bridge as a school enrichment or after school program. The teachers at "gifted" and math teacher conferences have been extraordinarily receptive to the idea. Jump Start Bridge is a worthy charitable organization for supporting bridge education in schools. They fund all the materials and supplies for teachers who start a bridge program in their school, even providing a stipend for the teachers! Visit https://www.jumpstartbridge.org/ to learn more about it! We registered over 70 leads from teachers interested in the program, and signed up 12 teachers with the ACBL who are ready to get started now! Student/Novice Player Program This is the week that our new student/novice player program starts! We are still *looking for (slightly!) experienced players* who are willing to mentor players and supervise our social/supervised play sessions. Right now the Friday session doesn't have an "owner." Jon and Susan are covering the Tuesday session, but we always need backups and standbys! It doesn't take a Grand Life Master to be a great host for these events. The main effort is going to be in helping them play smoothly and efficiently, and enjoy the game! Once in a while someone will ask for help on bids or plays, and you only have to tell them what you might do with the hand, or what options they  might choose from. The full student/novice weekly schedule is available on the web site at this link <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/schedule#novice>. Zachary's first workshop had five tables! Our first Thursday 0-20 novice game is already a "go" with at least two tables of players, and the Wednesday class has three full tables! /Are you ready to sign up?/ Drop me a note! Bridge Classes This Week Every week this month will have five great learning opportunities! We have two courses that just got started last week, and this week begins our *free Wednesday morning seminars with Lulu Minter*, as well as Bridge Basics 3 in the afternoon. This week's classes: * Wednesday, March 5, 10:00 AM /Lulu Minter FREE seminar/, "Counting" * Wednesday, March 5, 3:00 PM /Bridge Basics 3 - Popular Conventions/ "The Stayman Convention" * Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 PM /Introduction to Defense/ "Opening Leads against Trump Contracts" * Thursday, March 6, 7:00 PM /Improving Your Judgment - Doubles/ "Responding to the Takeout Double" In addition, every Saturday morning at 9:30, we have a free workshop using a hand from Eddie Kantar's /Thinking Bridge/ series. Every entertaining hand teaches players how to think about problems in bidding, play, and defense. The next /Bridge Basics 1 - Introduction/ class starts Thursday, April 3. It's open for registration at this link <https://pasadena.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=68489&int_category_id=0&int_sub_category_id=0&int_catalog_id=0>. If you get the PCC Extension catalog in your mailbox, you'll find our class listed! *Save the date* for our next *Robert Todd* seminar: Sunday, March 30, all day. We're starting to take reservations for the event. This is a first class bridge seminar. Robert features a bidding topic in the mornings, and a card play topic in the afternoon. The seminar fee will be $90. Coming up ... Our next *Sectional Tournament at Clubs* will be this coming week of March 10-16. We'll be offering silver point games every day that week! Card fees will be $13 to cover extra sanction fees. Best regards, Mojo, Jane, Zachary