[Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!

[Marion & Martin]

Sherri,
    Thank you for your message. We once again heard that our booth was one 
of the best in the festival! Thanks goes to Merry for setting up the booth. 
Her creativity, along with Sherrill's knowledge of Braille, was what made 
this booth so successful. Several of our Chapter members were on hand and 
were a great help, as well!

Fraternally,
Marion


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!


> What an exciting project. East Hillsborough is really on the go!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Merry Schoch" <merrys at verizon.net>
> To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Denise Prophet" <Denise at brailleworks.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:45 AM
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have been so stressed out studying to take the GRE test this Monday; 
>> however, today I have set that to the side and am thrilled about what the 
>> East Hillsborough chapter is doing.  We are participating in the 
>> Children's Festival at USF and , of course, our focus is on braille.  We 
>> aren't doing too much different from last year's event except for passing 
>> out balloons to the kids.  Thanks to Braille Works we have balloons that 
>> on one side has the Louis Braille coin, NFB, and Braille Readers are 
>> Leaders logo as well as the Braille Works logo on the opposite side.  I 
>> love what their logo states, "Making the World a More Readable Place". 
>> How absolutely empowering it will be for a blind child or one who has the 
>> potential of going blind, to have the opportunity to learn braille as a 
>> child and have the tools available to assist this child to be a "leader".
>>
>> I am please to be a part of today's events.  We will have displayed our 
>> braille Scrabble game, NFB literature, and will have for the first time 
>> at the event  "story times" thanks to our one and only State Braille 
>> campaign coordinator, Sherrill O'Brien.  We will again distribute braille 
>> alphabet cards with the child's (and sometimes adult's) name brailled on 
>> it.   Then the thing I love the best and that is the interaction with the 
>> children.
>>
>> We have containers that are covered each with different items in them, 
>> for example one of them has kithcen items such as a plate, cup, spoon, 
>> fork, plastic fruit, box of cereal, box of triscuits, can of tuna, can of 
>> veggies, hot cocoa mix (envelope), envelope of pop corn, etc.  The child 
>> is given a scenario and then is told to pick out some items from the 
>> container without using their sight.  The other containers have such 
>> items as bathroom items, toys, clothes, school supplies, and more.  The 
>> kids absolutely love the entire experience and now we can top it off with 
>> the helium balloons.  What kid doesn't like balloon?
>>
>> I am so excited and what a gorgeous day to be out and about.  Just had to 
>> share with all you our plans.
>>
>> Hope you all have a great day,
>> Merry
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