[stylist] good news: won first placeinbraille challengeregionals

[Henrietta Brewer]

Hmmmm, it must mean his teacher is blind? Visually impaired? lol

Henrietta
On Feb 5, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Brenda wrote:

> What do you mean by doing it at home with a VI teacher?  What does VI stand for?
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> The competition sounds really neat.
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> brenda
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> 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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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] good news: won first placeinbraille
>> challengeregionals
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>> Regionals sound like the "real thing" to me.
>> Henrietta
>> On Feb 5, 2012, at 5:57 PM, vejas wrote:
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>> 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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