PROJECT BOARDWORLD

INTRODUCTION

The popular saying goes ‘All work and no play makes Jack (or Jane) a dull boy (or girl)’. While it would pass for cliché,  the statement has hardly lost its flavour over time. Indeed, work is important in our daily lives and the results are often of immense benefits. However, continual work without provision for leisure would sooner than later result in a burn out and hinder the intended benefits of work. Leisure activities indeed help to maintain a mental balance and keep the engine of the mind running smoothly.

Children are naturally wired to crave leisure and except in special circumstances, the average child prefers leisure activities to work-related activities, thus it is usually a difficulty trying to catch their attention with other interests other than leisure. The academic environment of course leaves them with no choice but to participate in school work but given the freedom of choice, the average child would rather do something much more fun.

The school system has found a way of addressing this challenge by making a provision for extra-curricular activities that help to create a moderate atmosphere of leisure in the minds of the children. Such activities include football, physical exercises, swimming, music and audiovisual activities among others. 

These indeed help to ensure that Jack (or Jane) keeps up with the popular slogan and never becomes a dull boy (or girl).

As much as the above cited extra-curricular activities help to maintain a balance in children, developing them physically, it would be of greater benefit if the activities also focused to a great extent on the development of their minds and intellectual capacity. This is the primary objective of Project BoardWorld®.

THE CONCEPT INITIATORS

Project BoardWorld® is a brain-child of DINAMICO CONSULTING, a team of professionals specializing in educational and business consulting. We render business support services which include developing of business ideas and concepts, business plans, proposals, general content writing, editing and proofreading, pubishing, research, development, strategy and business advisory services. 

Through our educational consulting operations, we are involved various aspects of academic and non-academic programmes. Since 2009 when we commenced operations, we have been able to remarkably complement the efforts of schools by providing direct private and executive tutorial services for our clients through our subsidiary, DYNAMIC HOME TUTORS.

Our services cut across rendering private academic-based services to facilitation of career talks, quizzes, debates and compering of academic and non-academic events among other activities. In 2011, in our  bid to expand our scope of operations, we launched PROJECT BOARDWORLD, a concept aimed at improving extra-curricular activities across schools.

The team leader of DINAMICO CONSULTING is a young man, Mr. Gbenga Sile, a graduate of Economics from Lagos State University. Presently, he works as a serial consultant with a bias for business and educational consulting. With experience spanning almost a decade in this field of endeavour, Gbenga leads a team that is dedicated to delivering world class services and setting new standards. He is also a talented riter with a number of published and unpublished works.

THE CONCEPT

The BoardWorld® concept is aimed at creating an environment where the minds and intellect of school children would be further developed through participation in Strategy-oriented games. The beauty of the concept is the fact that the children would have the opportunity of improving their intellectual capacity and have fun at the same time, thus achieving the proverbial feat of killing two birds with a stone.

Board games like Chess, Monopoly and Scrabble have been known to play significant roles in the development of the mind and intellect of its players. However, our immediate society has not been well exposed to this idea and the vast possibilities surrounding it.  From participating in these games, the intellectual capacity of the players are broadened, their decision making and strategy skills are sharpened and their negotiation and bargaining skills are perfected. 

CHILDREN AND BOARD GAMES

Reliable research has shown that children at the toddler to pre-teen stages have  more receptive mind and assimilate faster than adults. This is further accentuated by their freedom from the worries and cares of life adults are known to carry around. For instance, a Nigerian child taken to France or Germany at the age of 4 is more likely to learn to speak fluent French or German faster than an adult who is taken to the same locations at age 25 or older. 

The introduction of board games into the school extra-curricular programme would add great value to the child and open a vast world of opportunities for them in the present and in the future. It would additionally promote the image of the school. This is just one of a few scenarios that indeed prove that children of school age have a faster ability to learn.

LIFETIME OPPORTUNITIES

On the global stage, board games have a strong voice and this is greatly exposed through competitions that are often accompanied with lucrative financial benefits and opportunities for players to have their names etched in the sands of time. 

Competitions such as the World Chess Championship and Women’s World Chess Championships organised by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) have been a platform for international prominence and emergence of chess grandmasters from various countries of the world. 

The National Scrabble Championship in U.S.A and the World Scrabble Championships are the umbrella bodies pioneering competitive Scrabble play in the world. In Monopoly, the World Monopoly Championship pioneers competitive Monopoly in the world.

In Nigeria, the awareness of board games has been largely minimal and restricted to a considerably low active membership. The activities of the Nigerian Chess Federation and representation of Chess at University games has done little to improve the awareness of the game in Nigeria. The other board games are hardly represented in most national platforms. 

However, we are positive an introduction and development of board games in school children, we would see an evolution of more brilliant minds who would be able to measure up with any of their counterparts in the world in terms of key interpersonal, deliberation, negotiation and decision making skills.

Please contact us in order for us to send you our full proposal for your perusal and quick decision making. Contact us via any of the following channels:

Mobile: 0803564724, 08066630520, 08132928198

Email: boardworld@dinamicoconsulting.com 
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