[Oabs] What are we doing at Convention

Tue Apr 8 01:53:21 UTC 2014

Personally, what I would like for us to shoot for is to have the
bookmarks ready by the start of the fall semester, which I know is
late August for UD.  That being said, I know that is 2 months sooner
than what Emily suggested, but if we could just selling on our college
campuses and each have a few bookmarks to work with over those 2
months, I think that would be awesome.  This fundraiser could be huge
if we take announcements over the NABS and Ohio-talk lists, but I
would like to sell them around UD, and think the college kids at the
various universities where we have students would be hot spots for us.
 After all, these bookmarks aren't just designed for blind users; we
put the puzzle on there specifically for the sighted people to solve,
and I know from giving a presentation on blindness to a group of
freshman music therapy majors today, that any student interested in
fields like education or something where they might come into contact
with a blind person will bite.  They were asking me tons of questions
about how braille works, and were really interested about the
different codes and such, and were really thrilled when I gave them a
printed sheet with the braille alphabet and a key listing the dot
names so they could learn how to point out the letters in their name.
Sighted kids will bite this fundraiser, so I think it is important
that we should not just sell to blind people.

On 4/7/14, Emily Pennington <emilypennington at fuse.net> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> I hope at least five of us can go and sell stuff. That being said, I
> haven't
> heard anything new from my committee since our last meeting, so I'm going
> to
> assume that we haven't received a quote from NBP or heard anything from our
> other two organizations. While I think the bookmarks could definitely be in
> production by then, I don't think they'd be ready for Convention,
> regrettably. State convention, however, is a possibility.
>
> Emily
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oabs [mailto:oabs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 4:03 PM
> To: Ohio Association of Blind Students list
> Subject: Re: [Oabs] What are we doing at Convention
>
> Hi Lillie,
>
> It really depends on the number of people we have going to convention.
>  When I sold candy with the affiliate last year, we had about 10 to 15 of
> us
> actively selling, (and a lot of my sales came from sitting with other
> affiliates and people wanting a little sugar rush durring general session).
> If we're going to sell and be profitable, we need to have at least a
> handful
> of people going.
>
> I know you and Emily are planning to go, and I am tentatively making plans
> as well.  I would like to know if anyone else is going so that no one or
> two
> people have to sell all the time.  It would be good if we can do this, but
> you're supposed to be able to learn from convention too.  I'd hope that
> people who went could sell when they could. but still count on others to
> pitch in as well.  I don't think 3 people would really be enough to
> accomplish this, especially since unless someone wins a scholarship, we'll
> likely only be outside our own affiliate at rare points in time, or in
> division meetings.  Last year I tried just standing in the hallway and
> shouting, but there are so many other callers for rooms and other sales
> that
> it's easy to not be heard.
> This being said, this is only if we can get the bookmarks designed and mass
> produced by the time convention roles around.  Emily, do you think about 2
> and a half months is enough time for this to happen?
>
> On 4/6/14, Lillie Pennington <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>>
>>
>> Upon waking up from a dream where I was trying to convince several
>> people that OABS should post an apples to apples tournament at
>> convention, I began wondering what are we going to be doing?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure  that several student devisions sell stuff at
>> convention. I know that Ohio will not have a table, but I feel like I
>> saw in an email last year that you didn't necessarily have to have a
>> table to sell stuff.
>>
>> Are we going to try to have the bookmarks ready by then?
>>
>> I think this could be good because it not only gets us funds, but we
>> have a big market that week and it puts our name out there sort of on
>> a national level.
>>
>> This may not be an option for us, but thought it was worth throwing
>> out there.
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, another idea I had is having a call to talk about convention.
>> Maybe having someone speak who's been to a number of conventions or
>> having a panel of sorts. We could also talk about things on the agenda
>> and ask questions, and get recommendations for what to go to.
>>
>> Also, is the big agenda out yet?
>>
>>
>>
>> I was just throwing these ideas out there. I am planning on convention
>> and this will be my first one and I'm really excited.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students
Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma