<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Greetings:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The National Association of Blind Students is excited to announce that we will be hosting a mentoring program as part of the activities for students at the 2013 NFB national convention, being held in Orlando Florida from July 1 to July6. We will be pairing students up with one-on-one student mentors who are experienced with national convention and, ideally, share professional and other interests. I know, this sounds great. But, to make it work, we need your participation!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">We are looking for folks who would be interested in having, or serving as, a student mentor during the week of convention. When selecting mentees, we will give preference to first-time convention attendees. But if there is enough space, we would like to open it up to those of you who have already attended a convention as well. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In order to be a mentee, you must:</span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Be a high school junior or senior, or a current college or graduate student (nontraditional students are welcome); and</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Be available to attend a welcome meeting with us on Monday, July 1 from 6:00-7:30 p.m.</span></li>
</ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">If you want to apply to become a mentee, please fill out a short survey at:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://nabslink.org/drupal/content/mentee-form">http://nabslink.org/drupal/content/mentee-form</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">In order to be a mentor, you must:</span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Have attended at least one NFB convention before;</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Be a current college or graduate student, or have graduated within the last two years (nontraditional students are welcome); and</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="font-family: Wingdings; letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Be available to attend a welcome meeting with us on Monday, July 1 from 6:00-7:30 p.m., and then be willing to spend some time with your mentee throughout the week.</span></li>
</ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">If you want to apply to become a mentor, please fill out a short survey at:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnabslink.org%2Fdrupal%2Fcontent%2Fmentor-form%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFk07WjaSgpvw7_NgwBehjC7WSFvg">http://nabslink.org/drupal/content/mentor-form</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Please share this with your friends or anybody who might be interested.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Thank you for your interest in this new NABS program!</span></p><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div>Darian Smith</div><div>2nd Vice President, National Association of Blind Students</div><div><a href="mailto:dsmithnfb@gmail.com">dsmithnfb@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nabslink.org">www.nabslink.org</a></div><div>Follow the National Association of Blind Students on twitter: @nabslink</div>
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