[il-talk] Great Lakes Braille Readers Are Leaders: The Results Are In!

[Deborah Kent Stein]

The 2017 Great Lakes Braille Readers Are Leaders Contest (Great Lakes BRAL)
has come to an end. All of the Great Lakes affiliates took part in this
first multi-state competition for K-12 Braille readers: Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Fourty-four students registered for the contest, and thirty-nine submitted
reading logs. Altogether the participants read a whopping 16,540 pages! The
first-place winner in the grades 6-8 category, and the top reader in the
entire contest, is Anthony Spears, a seventh grader from Mattoon, Illinois.
Anthony (who goes by LT) read 4,015 Braille pages during the contest period,
which ran between December 1 and January 20!

 

Below is a list of the 2017 BRAL winners, presented by grade category. Thank
you for supporting the 2017 Great Lakes BRAL Contest!

 

Debbie

 

Great Lakes BRAL Winners 2017

 

K-1

 

First Place: Shaelin Shakespeare, Aliquippa, PA 

Second Place: Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Kalamazoo, MI 

Third Place: Maxwell Clements, Portage, MI 

 

Grades 2-3

 

First Place: Mackenzie Karbash, Delavan, WI 

Second Place: Mariam Samura, Oneida, NY 

Third Place: Andrew Godwin, Bristol, PA 

 

Grades 4-5

 

First Place: Jacob Cole, Painted Post, NY 

Second Place: Jake LaVeck, Champaign, IL 

Third Place: Isaac Raske, Wheaton, IL 

 

Grades 6-8

 

First Place: Anthony (LT) Spears, Mattoon, IL 

Second Place: Matthew Leinart, Downers Grove, IL 

Third Place: Andrea Cataquiz, Glendale Heights, IL 

 

Grades 9-12

 

First Place: Phuong Nguyen, Bloomington, MN 



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