We hosted SiVY’s first ever Winter Camp from Tuesday 12/26 to Friday 12/29.
The four-day camp was modeled off of SiVY’s summer camps that were held every June from 2014 to 2019. We had 17 campers from ages 6 to 26, including 15 kids and 2 young adults. Our 6 camp counselors included a former summer camper, Cornelius Duffie, and 3 former summer camp counselors – Kai Eckert, Kevin Rosenberg, and Will Watson.
The Young Adults participated in a 2-day boot camp on Tuesday and Wednesday led by Kevin Rosenberg. The Kids’ Camp was held from 2-6:30pm every day from Tuesday to Friday. There was one table of “intermediate” players and four tables of brand new players. Experienced players were led by Olivia Schireson and did a variety of supervised play and advanced cardplay and bidding topics; two of them, Kevin Wei (3rd grade) and Jeremy Zhang (6th grade), played in the 0-20 section at the Wednesday evening PABC game. They even bid and made a game that no one else in the field did!
New players learned mini-bridge on Day 1, declarer play technique on Day 2, bidding on Day 3, and played in their first tournament on Day 4. Amber Lin, Kai Eckert, Will Watson, and Cornelius Duffie led the new players. The program included lessons, supervised play, and some fun activities such as races for sorting hands, counting HCPs, and completing the shape, suit-symbol cookie decorating, and bridge-themed team trivia.
Both intermediate and beginner players competed in a 10-bard duplicate tournament on the final day. Several other SiVY players who did not attend camp joined too. This was the first tournament for most of the players!
Winners included:
- Kevin Wei (3rd grade) & Jeremy Zhang (6th grade) – 1st in “Intermediate”
- Beatrice Hung (5th grade) & Alexandre Luong (3rd grade) – 2nd in “Intermediate”
- Larry Wei (1st grade) & Oscar Li (2nd grade) – 1st in “Beginner”
- Kate Abrams (5th grade) & Will Woodall (5th grade) – 2nd in “Beginner” (4th-6th graders)
- Milly Jain (1st grade) & Anny Jain (1st grade) – 2nd in “Beginner” (1st-3rd grades)
Final tournament results | Photos | Lesson materials and handouts
Thank you to everyone who attended – campers, parents, and volunteers!
