[Ncabs] NFB of NC State Convention Friday Night

Sat Apr 16 01:52:36 UTC 2011

Typically the exhibit hall will run from 6-9. In 2009 we did have both
an exhibit hall and a game night. The game night was very
unsuccessful, but we had different people at each location. If we do
an event let's just make sure people can still concentrate on running
the table and selling snack packs, because Friday night brought a lot
of sales.

I have always thought it would be really cool to have a student track
separate from the general sessions. Several other states do this, but
our state board has been staunchly against it in the past, but if we
develop a good argument, we could present it. We could perhaps have
some of the relevant presenters present to the general session and
then perhaps present separately to the students so they could
concentrate on their student related services and answer our more
specific questions such as Bookshare and NCLBPH. This would be a
bigger undertaking, but it could help us attract more students, and if
we bring up the idea of a student track, it could only be during one
of the general sessions, and maybe only a portion of one like 2 hours
or so.

We could do an event Friday. This year, Gary wants to stress to
members to get to convention early, because there will be more
sessions during the day. I think it would be cool to have some
students at these sessions which will probably be run by our national
rep to take notes for the students or something. I will not have the
school obligation, and depending on when the Ashevillians get a ride
down, I could potentially represent the students at these sessions. If
Asheville won't come early, I will see if I can afford to go Thursday
night. But if we wanted to do something concurrently on Friday, then
we would have to ask, and like I said, typically NC is not in favor of
anything running concurrent with their programming, and during the day
Friday would most likely be difficult for students.

We could always arrange to have a student breakfast that could be more
socially oriented than our business meeting lunch, or we could do
something after the exhibit hall like walk to a close buy
restaurant/bar or something.

Cindy

On 4/15/11, Salisbury, Justin Mark <SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu> wrote:
> What happened in 2009 with the exhibit hall?  Did we not have a table?  I
> remember that we had a game night in 2009.  Last year, I remember us having
> a table in the exhibit hall but no separate event.
>
> I haven't heard an official schedule for the exhibit hall yet.  Once we know
> that, we can toy with the idea of scheduling around it.
>
> Justin M. Salisbury
> Undergraduate Student
> The University Honors Program
> East Carolina University
> salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
>
> “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
> the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> Bennett [clb5590 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 4:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Ncabs] NFB of NC State Convention Friday Night
>
> What is hard is that we will have to be sure we have people to man our
> table in the exhibit hall if we still plan to have one.
>
> Cindy
>
> On 4/15/11, Cala Estes <cala.estes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Justin,
>>
>> Are we talking a social event? Maybe a group dinner?
>>
>> Cala Estes
>> NCABS Secretary
>>
>> On 4/15/11, Salisbury, Justin Mark <SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu> wrote:
>>> Dear NCABS members and leaders,
>>>
>>>      At the NFB of NC state convention in September, we might be able to
>>> have some type of gathering on that Friday night.  Are you all interested
>>> in
>>> having such a gathering, and what type of gathering would you like it to
>>> be?
>>>  Please give ideas!
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Justin
>>>
>>>
>>> Justin M. Salisbury
>>> Undergraduate Student
>>> The University Honors Program
>>> East Carolina University
>>> salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
>>>
>>> “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
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