[NFB-Idaho] STEM technology going to ICBVI for the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers!

[Ramona]

Let's try to shoot it for our youtube channel. Please be sure to let me know when it is or that somebody else is doing it. Then one of us can get it to Kevin Pirnie. Shane knows how, and I think Don does to. Great thought and wonderful gift, Don! 

Ramona
On Jul 7, 2023 2:26 PM, Donald Winiecki via NFB-Idaho <nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> News flash! 
>
> My braille transcription non-profit business (Handid Braille Services 
> https://www.handid.org) is having a pretty good year. 
>
> To pay it forward, I donated two Orbit TI-84 plus talking calculator 
> <https://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orion-ti-84-plus/>s to the National 
> Association of Blind Students (NABS) and the Science and Engineering 
> Division (SED) of NFB, and built a raffle website for them to sell tickets 
> to raffle off the devices. Proceeds go to NABS and SED to help fund their 
> activities for the year. 
>
> These are state of the art handheld calculators that do all scientific 
> functions and scientific graphing, and allow you to navigate the graph with 
> voice over. It's pretty whizz-bang technology! 
>
> The raffle was drawn at the Closing Banquet at the just-finished NFB 
> Convention in Houston. 
>
> I am absolutely chuffed to report that one of the calculators was won by 
> our own Shane Ostermeier! When he bought the tickets, Shane wrote that he 
> would donate the calculator to ICBVI to help students. Putting the 
> calculators in the hands of keen students is *exactly* the kind of thing I 
> wanted to happen! Thanks Shane!! 
>
> I think it would fabulous if we could get a picture of Shane handing the 
> device to Beth and Earl at ICBVI with me in the background smiling from ear 
> to ear! That will be a worthy mention in the NFB-Idaho newsletter, and even 
> a topic for a video that goes along with others in "Idaho's Blind"! 
>
> Best wishes, 
>
> DON WINIECKI 
>
> Handid Braille Services 
>
>
>    - a 501(c)(3) non-profit producer of braille & accessible media 
>    - specializing in languages that don't use Latin symbols systems 
>
> Email: dwiniecki at handid.org 
>
> Web: https://www.handid.org 
>
> Tel: +1 208 571 8096 
>
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