[stylist] good news: won first placeinbraille challengeregionals

Mon Feb 6 00:35:26 UTC 2012

A VI teacher is a teacher of the visually impaired.  They help 
blind kids get their Braille materials, and help them work with 
anything that they're having trouble with, like maps.  They can 
also help the teacher modify an assignment.
Vejas

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From: Brenda <bjnite at windstream.net
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challengeregionals

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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 From: Henrietta Brewer <gary.brewer at comcast.net
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 Date sent: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:21:35 -0500
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 challengeregionals

 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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