[Mdabs] Fwd: [Mdpobc] National Braille Readers are Leaders (BRAL) Contest

[Ellana Crew]

K-12 Students,

Check out this opportunity to flex your braille muscles and win a prize!

Ellana Crew
President, Maryland Association of Blind Students
443-758-7211
nfbmd.org/students
facebook.com/mdabs.federation
@MDABS_NFB

The Maryland Association of Blind Students knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind students because low expectations create obstacles between blind students and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.

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> From: nfbmd via MDPOBC <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
> Date: November 20, 2017 at 12:09:53 PM EST
> To: "'Maryland Parents of Blind Children List'" <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: nfbmd <nfbmd at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Mdpobc] National Braille Readers are Leaders (BRAL) Contest
> Reply-To: Maryland Parents of Blind Children List <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
> 
> Hello All!
> Get ready to enter your children in our new National Braille Readers are Leaders contest!  This is a good opportunity to encourage braille reading.  This contest is different than the Braille Challenge, because you do all of it at home. However it is good preparation for the Braille challenge that will occur on February 3, 2018.  In addition to the National prizes, we will have some prizes and recognition for all Maryland participants.  See below information and sign up quickly!!
>  
> ·                     For each student who enters, a certifying official (parent, teacher, etc.) must fill out and submit a registration form. Registration forms can be submitted as early as November 15 2017 and as late as February 1 2018.
> ·                     Kids enter in one of five grade categories: K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8, & 9-12.
> ·                     Participants record Braille pages read in the weeks between December 15 2017 and February 1 2018 on a reading log.
> ·                     The certifying official must submit the completed reading log by February 10 2018.
> ·                     Prizes in each grade category are: first, $25; second, $15; third, $10.
> ·                     Every contestant, whether a winner or not, will receive a “goodie bag” containing Braille-related items at the end of the contest.
>  
> In addition to awards in the five grade categories, the Kelly Doty Award is given to a student who has met unusual challenges in order to learn and read Braille. Such challenges include, but are not limited to, having other disabilities in addition to blindness or being an English language learner.
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> The complete contest rules, registration form, and the reading log form will be available by November 8 on the website, https://www.nfbofillinois.org/nationwide-bral-contest/
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>  
> Sharon Maneki, President
> National Federation of the Blind of Maryland
> 410-715-9596
> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.
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