[Mn-abs] Nabs needs your help at national convention!

[Lisa Kidder]

Hello: I won't be at the convention in person either, because of 
a wedding in my family, but I am will to help in whatever way I 
can also.  Especially in the areas of assistive technology, and 
working with textbook publishers on developing accessible formats 
of textbooks.  Thank you, Lisa

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Al Jask <al4peace at yahoo.com
To: Minnesota Association of Blind Students List 
<mn-abs at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:20:36 -0500
Subject: Re: [Mn-abs] Nabs needs your help at national 
convention!

Hi,
Great jobs and activities.
I will not be at the convention in person because of funding 
problem but willing to help in what ever way you would want me to 
especially in the area of accessibility of assisted technology.
apple is my specialty so I do have some experience using the 
Macbook pro, iphone amongst other apple products
I guess lot can be done by way of virtual connect..
Cheers.

Alvin Jask
MABS Vice President



Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com> 
wrote:

 Hello Fellow Students,
 Convention is just around the corner- can you believe it?

 As you all know,  the National association of blind students is
 planning a lot of exciting things at national convention  What 
you may
 not know however is that we as a board  can’t do  all of it 
ourselves.
 So we would  very much  appreciate your help in making  The nabs
 activities a success this year!
 Where we would most appreciate your assistance is in two areas:
 1.  assistance  in staffing the nabs table  located in the 
exhibit hall.
 Here you will be partnered up  with a nabs board member selling
 coffie mugs and handing out nabs literature.  The schedule  for
 tabling looks like this:
 Monday , July 4:
 Shift  1.  11 a.m.  -1 p.m.

 Shift 2.  1 p.m.  – 3 p.m.

 Shift 3.  3 p.m.  – 5p.m.


 Tuesday, July 5:


 shift 4:  9a.m.  – 11a.m.


 Shift 5: 11a.m.  – 1 p.m.

 Shift 6: 1: p.m.  – 3p.m.
 Shift 7.  3p.m.  – 5 p.m.
 Wednesday, July 6:
 Shift 8: 12 noon – 1:45 p.m.

 Shift 9: 7 p.m.  - 8:30 p.m.

 Shift 10:  8:30 p.m.  – 10p.m.

 Thursday, July 7:
 Shift 11: 12 noon – 1:45 p.m.

 shift 12:  7p.m.  – 8p.m.

 shift 13: 8p.m.  – 9p.m.



 As you can see, we have  thirteen shifts, so  if you contact me 
with
 your preference, I will be more  than happy to get you scheduled 
in!
 *Note  to state Student division presidents: we would like to  
offer
 you the opportunity to  sell your fundraising items at the nabs 
table,
 if you would be willing to  help us staff it.  If so, please  
contact
 me with the times you would be willing to work.    If   your 
state
 student division president is not  going to be attending 
convention,
 still contact me, and we’ll get your division in there to 
fundraise.

 2.  The Nabs business meeting and elections.   We want to make
 registration and elections as painless and orderly as possible, 
and
 you can absolutely help with  this! We are going to need: 
individuals
 who are willing to marshal (you know, those folks that say 
“nabs
 meeting: this way!”.  If you are  loud, we could really use 
your help
 here!)
 We will also need individuals to be “runners”.  These  
individuals will
 help to count ballots in the event that a voice vote is not 
sufficient
 to settle a contested election.  These individuals should be 
willing
 to collect and count ballot cards in order to  determine the 
winner of
 the electoral contest.  It is  strongly recommended that 
individuals
 serving in this vital role   do not seek election  to any nabs 
office,
 in order to  insure an unbias and fair election for all persons
 involved.

 3.  Staffing the nabs monte carlo night fund raiser.  This is a 
great
 opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with us  in putting 
together
 one of our most successful events that we do.  For this we will  
need:
 Individuals who can work  an early shift ( 7:00 p.m.  - 9:30 
p.m.
 Those  individuals will be asked to:
 a.    Marshal.
 b.    Set up for the event
 c.    Deal card games( blackjack, poker, holdemand other such 
games)
 We will also need Late shift workers (9:30 p.m.  – 12:00 a.m.)  
Those
 individuals would be asked to:
 a.    deal card games (blackjack, poker, holdem and other such 
games)
 b.    assist with event clean- up and playing  chip  counting.

 Please let me know what shift(s) you are interested in working
 (exhibit hall, monte carlo or both), and please include a phone 
number
 which we can use to contact you at convention (just in case).  
If
 Monte carlo,  please let me know what job you would like to take 
on,
 if you would like to deal and what games  you would like to deal
 (blackjack, poker, holdem or other such games).
 This is a great opportunity for you to meet the nabs board, and 
us to
 get to know you.  As well, this is  an equally great opportunity 
for
 you  to meet a lot of new people and have some fun at the same 
time.
 Please contact me by July 1 if interested.
 I can be contacted at: dsmithnfb at gmail.com

 Thank you   so much for your interest  and I look forward to 
hearing
 from you all real soon
 And of course, See you in Orlando!
 Best,
  Darian


 --
 Darian Smith
 Board member/ convention  volunteer coordinator
 National Association of Blind Students

 “My secret?  See it, and stay focused on it.”

 — Shaquille O'Neal

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