[Tall-Corn] 2025 Braille Challenge

[Jim Rechkemmer]

The Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled is honored to host the
2025 Iowa Regional Braille Challenge on February 22nd. They will be
celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Braille Challenge

   The Braille Challenge kicks off with a Pep Rally at 9:30 am and concludes
with an Awards Ceremony at 2:00 pm. Please feel free to join the library for
those events to cheer on and congratulate the Braille Challenge
participants!

After testing, the library will host an Ice Cream Social and Birthday Bash
to celebrate the Iowa Department for the Blind's 100th Birthday, which will
also include karaoke.

 The Braille Challenge is the only academic competition of its kind in North
America for students who are blind or with low vision. The Braille Institute
developed the Braille Challenge to motivate students to practice and hone
their braille literacy skills, which are essential to academic and
employment success.

Any student who is blind or with low vision in grades 1 - 12 who can read
and write braille is eligible to participate in the Braille Challenge. This
year's theme is Blast Off with Braille.

We are also pleased to offer you the opportunity to purchase this year's
Braille Challenge T-shirt. Proceeds of the t-shirt sales will benefit the
Friends of the Iowa Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and
future Braille Challenges.  All shirts are crew neck and short sleeved.
Shirts are purple with white lettering.  The front of the t-shirt says in
print: Blast off with Braille next to a rocket Blasting off.  Also included
in the front design is the word Braille in Braille. The Back of the t-shirt
says Blast off with Braille in Braille and includes the logo of the Iowa
Library For The Blind and Print Disabled.   All sizing is unisex and all
shirts are $25.00 plus shipping.  Orders will be taken through February 3.  

To order your shirt, go directly to the online store at
<https://www.ignition.ink/braille> https://www.ignition.ink/braille or go to
the  Iowa Library Blog at  <https://iowalibrary.blog/>
https://iowalibrary.blog/. 

You can choose to have your t-shirt shipped directly to you or pick up at
Braille Challenge on Saturday, February 22nd at the Iowa Department for the
Blind.  If you will not be at the event, please have the shirt shipped
directly to you.

The online store will open again a week after the Braille Challenge.

For details about the Iowa Regional Braille Challenge, visit
<https://iowalibrary.blog/braille-challenge/> Braille Challenge - Iowa
Library for the Blind. 

 

Blast Off With Braille!!!

 

Jim Rechkemmer, President

Friends Of The Iowa Library for The Blind And Physically Handicapped

   

 

 

 

 

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