[stylist] good news: won first placeinbraille challengeregionals

[Brenda]

What do you mean by doing it at home with a VI teacher?  What does VI 
stand for?

The competition sounds really neat.

brenda




On 2/5/2012 6:26 PM, vejas wrote:
> Since I did the preliminies at home with a VI teacher though, I used 
> to just vew it as practice.
> Vejas
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> Regionals sound like the "real thing" to me.
> Henrietta
> On Feb 5, 2012, at 5:57 PM, vejas wrote:
>
> This email is going to answer both Robert's and Brenda's questions.
> The Braille Challenge is a countrywide (and also some of Canada) 
> competition which both tests your Braille skills and is a lot of fun.  
> It's for grades 1-12.
> To get into the final competition, which we call the nationals, you 
> must first take a practice test.  Possibly 800 people practice but 
> only about 60 (12 from each group) actually make it in unless there's 
> a tiebreaker, so more will.
> The practices can be done in a group with kids from your state, or can 
> be private with a VI.  What you do depends on your grade.
> Apprentice grades 1-2: reading comprehension, spelling and proofreading
> Freshman grades 3-4: same
> Sophomore Grades 5-6: reading comprehension, proofreading, spelling, 
> Braille speed and accuracy (for that one you have to listen  to a tape 
> with a story and have to copy xof
> Junior Varsity Grades 7-9 and Varsity grades 10-12: reading 
> comprehension, proofreading, charts and graphs, and speed and accuracy)
> I would suggest for anyone interested, like who might know a blind 
> child that would want to do it, to start out with a private VI then 
> later do regionals.  Don't get me wrong; regionals are fun, you get to 
> make friends and you actually feel like you're doing the real thing, 
> but when you first do it, doing it individually is a lot better 
> because you can understand what to do better.  What I mean is, I did 
> Braille speed and accuracy privately first, and was able to do it 
> fine, but another kid had no clue what to do.  When you work 
> individually you go at your own pace, but then later you will discover 
> that regionals are more fun.  Like I said, it felt like I was doing 
> the real thing.
> Also, all because you win first place unfortunately doesn't mean you 
> will get in to the nationals, as 12 or more other people from other 
> states could do better than me.  I do have a pretty high chance 
> though, because there were at least 10 of us in our group.  The 
> youngest group only had like 3 or 4.  (So that means if you're the 
> only one in the group, and get them all wrong, you're number 1 for 
> that group.) Anyway it's lots of fun, I hope that's what you're 
> looking for but just ask and I will elaborate.
>
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