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

[denise avant]

Cathy,
Every year, Debbie makes a great effort to invite people from BELL to state
convention. And she is preparing to do so again this year.
 In fact, she is responsible for getting parents in general to our last
State convention.




Denise R. Avant, President
National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
Live the life you want.
For more information about NFBI, 
Go to www.nfbofillinois.org.

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Debbie,
  I really hope we can make a real  cpush to get Illinois winners and their
families to State Convention!

					Cathy

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Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 11:36 PM
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Cc: Deborah Kent Stein
Subject: [il-talk] Great Lakes Braille Readers Are Leaders: The Results Are
In!

 

 

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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