[NFBWATlk] Last chance to register and get a hotel for NFB of Washington state Convention

Sun Feb 9 01:57:07 UTC 2025

We would like to formally invite you to the 2025 National Federation of the
Blind (NFB) of Washington state Convention: Live the Life You Want. This
exciting event will be held February 27-March 2 at the Heathman Lodge in
Vancouver WA. We have an array of exciting events planned which include a
karaoke night, jam session, audio described movie, accessible sports, escape
room, our annual job seeker seminar, gatherings for both parents and
students, and other thrilling opportunities. Learn about legislative
priorities, advocacy efforts, innovative technology, find new resources, and
learn about the NFB of Washington at this annual gathering. In addition, we
will be awarding 3 $3000 scholarships Saturday evening at our banquet.
Please find attached the convention agenda, if you have not already, please
get registered and your hotel booked. Come meet new friends, reunite with
old friends, and learn to live the life you want. 

Convention agenda: Please find the convention agenda attached to this email
in a word document format.

Hotel booking: The rate for convention hotel rooms this year is $122 plus
$12 per night amenity fee, and tax. all rooms must be booked by February 12,
2025. You can call the Heathman Lodge directly at 360-254-3100 and mention
you are with the NFB of Washington convention for this rate 

Convention Registration: all participants must be registered by February 14,
2025. The registration fee is $30 and there is a choice of 4 different meal
packages: no meals, banquet only, all Saturday meals, or Friday lunch and
all Saturday meals. In order to receive meals at convention, you must
register an pay by this deadline.

Convention Registration

Educators: Are you an educator of blind/low vision students? The National
Federation of the Blind of Washington is pleased to be partnering with our
platinum convention sponsor, The Northwest Center for Assistive Technology
Training (CATT-NW) to bring you a valuable workshop on TADA. This event is
free and will be held February 28, 2025, 9:00am-4:00pm in person at the
Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA. TADA! offers 10 free online activities for
anyone to use with a student of any age/ability who would like to learn
nonvisual drawing skills, spatial concepts related to coding, and how to
create computer graphics. This full-day session will take you on a hands-on
tour of this modern day adventure map and provide a deep dive on how to
design and produce tactile graphics. This session will be offering
Washington state clock hours, as well as ACVREP hours. CATT NW will also be
hosting a breakout session on Saturday March 1 titled Unlocking Multimedia
Accessibility with OCR and Visual Interpreter Apps with clock hours and
ACVREP hours available. To register for the TADA session, please click here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScED_HxrTCcgROiI6VKLt52K2wntLz6zTQ
FT6w7PPdrhWIRYQ/viewform?usp=sf_link> 

Partner/exhibitor: Are you interested in joining the convention as a sponsor
or exhibiting in our exhibit hall? We would love to partner with you, our
exhibitor/sponsorship registration form is below. We would like to take this
opportunity to thank our sponsors thus far at this year's convention: the
Center for Assistive Technology and Training (CATT) NW, Department of
services for the Blind, Democracy Live, Disability Rights Washington,
non-24/Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Irie AT, and OneCourt. For any questions
regarding sponsoring/exhibiting, please reach out to Chris Higley at
chrishigley13 at gmail.com <mailto:chrishigley13 at gmail.com> 

Partnership Registration form

Alaska cruise drawing: At this year's convention, we will also be holding an
Alaska cruise fundraiser. Get your tickets now! The National Federation of
the Blind of Washington is giving away cabin fare on 2 balcony cabins and 1
interior cabin for our 2025 Alaska cruise. Cruise to Alaska with Federation
friends on the Norwegian Cruise Lines Bliss. Cruise dates: September 27 -
October 4, 2025. Drawing date: March 1, 2025. Drawing ticket price: $20.
Winners need not be present to win. Get all the details and purchase
tickets:

here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSev9xSfOc-3HPPvX7qjqcMdZ4Kd5ENbGik
E0tkaVQYZ8WwKng/viewform> 

If you have any questions regarding convention, please reach out to Corey
Grandstaff directly at corey.grandstaff at gmail.com
<mailto:corey.grandstaff at gmail.com> . Look forward to connecting with all of
you at this year's annual convention.

     Corey Grandstaff, Treasurer NFB of Washington, Convention Committee
Chair

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