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professionals who are developing software or teaching techniques, but is
appropriate for anyone seeking new innovations to help blind people
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Louis Braille <b>- TOUCH OF GENIUS PRIZE FOR INNOVATION</b>
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Have you developed an innovative and accessible product? NBP is now
accepting applications for the 2023 Louis Braille Touch of Genius
Award.<br><br>
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</b>• Professional or education software
and apps<br><br>
• Gaming software or apps that promote
tactile & braille learning<br><br>
• Braille or tactile-related
hardware<br><br>
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Project must demonstrate some aspect of tactile literacy for blind
persons and promote braille literacy or access to information.<br><br>
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· <b>Application Deadline is January 13,
2023<br><br>
</b>· <b>Download the application and details at:
touchofgeniusprize.org <br><br>
</b>· <b>Or contact us at
<a href="mailto:geniusprize@nbp.org">geniusprize@nbp.org</a><br><br>
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Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, <br><br>
Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness<br><br>
Louisiana Tech University<br><br>
600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall<br><br>
PO Box 3158<br><br>
Ruston LA 71272<br><br>
Office:
318.257.4554
Fax: 318.257.2259 <br><br>
<a href="mailto:ebell@latech.edu">ebell@latech.edu</a>
<a href="http://www.pdrib.com/" eudora="autourl">www.pdrib.com<br><br>
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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."<br><br>
-- Stephen Jay Gould<br><br>
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