[Nfb-seniors] Fw: Help Promote Access to Science for Blind Students

[Judy Sanders]

Read the below message and figure out how you can help.  I'll bet your grandchildren are texting.  You or your neighbor are on Facebook.  Het's help the kids.

Judy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lamkin, Seth 
To: Lamkin, Seth 
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:06 PM
Subject: Help Promote Access to Science for Blind Students


Hello NFB Division leaders:

 

There's less than two weeks remaining in the August voting period for the 2011 NFB Youth Slam to win a grant of $250,000 from the Pepsi Refresh project. We've made excellent progress over the past two weeks, but we have seemed to slow down over the past few days as we're now into much tougher competition at the top. We now sit at 22, so we only have 20 more spots to go in order to receive the funds for our program. If you haven't already, please make a point to spread the need to vote among all your friends and family, on Facebook, Twitter, or any method you have available to you. Again there are three ways to log a vote each day: 

 

  1.. Text Message: Simply put the number 101913 into the body of a text, and send that text to 73774. That's all you have to do each day to vote via text. *Standard text-messaging rates apply 
  2.. Go to www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam, click the link to vote, and then choose the log in using Facebook option. Once you're successfully logged in, click the vote button on our page again and the vote link will disappear and you'll have logged your vote! 
  3.. Go to www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam, click the link to vote, and then choose the sign in directly with Pepsi option. This option is the least desirable option, but with practice still can be done in less than a minute each day. An audio CAPTCHA is necessary for completing this option, but only this option requires the CAPTCHA. If you do not wish to solve a CAPTCHA each time to vote (and do not have the ability to text), please use the Facebook option, even if you simply create a Facebook account to vote for this month and deactivate it once we have won. 
 

Thank you for all of your hard work in spreading the word and for voting yourself each day. Hopefully we'll see the fruits of our labor and the NFB Youth Slam will start to climb the rankings again!

 

Many thanks,

 

Seth

 

Seth Lamkin

Grant Program Officer

Jernigan Institute

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

200 East Wells Street

     at Jernigan Place

Baltimore, MD 21230

Cell: (919) 923-0140

Fax: (410) 659-5129

www.nfb.org

 

Promote Access to Science Education for Blind Students

Vote for the NFB Youth Slam in the Pepsi Refresh Project, or text 101913 to Pepsi (73774)