[NABS-L] Touch of Genius

[Edward Bell]

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Louis Braille - TOUCH OF GENIUS PRIZE FOR INNOVATION


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Win up to $10,000



Have you developed an innovative and accessible 
product? NBP is now accepting applications for 
the 2023 Louis Braille Touch of Genius Award.





•      Professional or education software and apps

•      Gaming software or apps that promote tactile & braille learning

•      Braille or tactile-related hardware





Project must demonstrate some aspect of tactile 
literacy for blind persons and promote braille 
literacy or access to information.



·     Application Deadline is January 13, 2023

·     Download the application and details at: touchofgeniusprize.org

·     Or contact us at <mailto:geniusprize at nbp.org>geniusprize at nbp.org







Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director,

Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness

Louisiana Tech University

600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall

PO Box 3158

Ruston LA 71272

Office: 318.257.4554                      Fax: 318.257.2259

<mailto:ebell at latech.edu>ebell at latech.edu  www.pdrib.com

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"I am somehow less interested in the weight and 
convolutions of  Einstein's brain than in the 
near certainty that people of equal  talent have 
lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

-- Stephen Jay Gould






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