Chess
Each spring at the Queen City Classic Chess Tournament our Super Saturday Knights compete under the leadership of teacher Kevin Coleman. If you would like to arrange meet ups for your children to play chess, try reaching out to other TSSP parents via our private Facebook group, The Super Saturday Program Community.
Robotics
This upcoming 2025-26 season, TSSP will begin sponsoring at least two new FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Challenge level teams and one new Explore level team with six team members each. Due to the popularity of our LEGO Mindstorms Robotics class, TSSP volunteers have been surveying interest in robotics teams, developing a sponsorship plan, and collecting contact info of potential team members. Our dynamo rocketry teacher has now been successful in recruiting coaches. We held an information meeting during GCE sessions on 1/25/25 and emailed those who previously expressed an interest in participating. Important information shared at the meeting was posted to our private Facebook group, The Super Saturday Program Community. To express an interest and get updates, email us at marketing@supersaturday.org. We would be delighted to hear from people also interested in coaching or who have coached in the past and want to contribute. We are also welcoming teens who have aged out of FLL into mentorship roles.
Preseason activities will begin in March. Team selections will be completed in May. Teams will begin meeting in August. Tournaments begin in November. The length of the season depends on how far teams progress through regional, state, and championship levels. The State competition is held in March and the FIRST Championship is in April.
Rocketry
We have two teams competing in the American Rocketry Challenge (TARC). Teams are composed of dedicated students of our classes It Is Rocket Science, Advanced Rocketry, and Master Rocketry and are coached by our teachers Shirley Lee and Ryan Cheng.