<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">---------- Forwarded message ---------</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sarah Scapardine</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sarah@vistaseducation.com" target="_blank">sarah@vistaseducation.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM<br>Subject: Request for Distribution: Abacus Bee<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:president@nfbnj.org" target="_blank">president@nfbnj.org</a>><br>Cc: Monique A Coleman <<a href="mailto:monique@vistaseducation.com" target="_blank">monique@vistaseducation.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-6816902366277237398m_6982120192949762209m_9111034277639404339gmail-docs-internal-guid-badb18c9-7fff-406b-7429-ec6afd8d654d"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:16pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt">VISTAS Education Partners and the NFB of NJ Present:</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>2024 New Jersey Abacus Bee</b></span></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Math competition open to blind and low vision students ages 5–21</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Contestants can use an abacus, mental math, finger math, and/or manipulatives</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Contests available in braille and large print</span></p></li></ul><h1 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Oct. 27</span><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span>     </span></span><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">8:30AM–3:30PM</span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Crowne Plaza Hotel</span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:20pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Edison, NJ</span></h1><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian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