[gps-talkusers] e: Announcing Blindness Tech Fair For Those In Central United States

From: Karen Bailey <karenb74@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:25:12 -0400

Wow! I wish they would do a comference like this in my region.That's great. Karen Bailey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kane Brolin" <kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx
To: kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:07:51 -0400
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Announcing Blindness Tech Fair For Those

In Central United States

Greetings.

This message is being copied to several lists, but it is not
automatically generated.

I wish to make an announcement that might be of interest for many

who

live in the Great Lakes region of the United States:  A
blindness-oriented technology fair known as Vision Impaired

Solutions

for Total Access (V.I.S.T.A.) is to be held on the campus of the
University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana on Thr., 16 October,
2008, from 12:00-7:00 PM, Eastern Daylight Time. Admission is

free of

charge, but seating is limited and pre-registration is therefore
strongly encouraged.

V.I.S.T.A. is not the outreach of any pre-existing governmental

body

or blindness networking alliance, or political organization.

Instead,

it welcomes those with a variety of different viewpoints and ways

of

getting things done. It will feature presentations on a number

of

topics, including how those who partially or totally lack

eyesight can

efficiently leverage technology and other resources to gain

employment

and thrive in a diverse workplace. A presentation at 2:00 PM

will

demonstrate how even someone with no eyesight can function
independently in a scientific laboratory. In addition,

V.I.S.T.A.

will feature hands-on exhibits from several leading organizations

and

will highlight a wide array of notetakers, Daisy/MP3 players,
classroom tools, accessible medical monitoring devices, and

accessible

GPS and wireless phone solutions.  Several affordable low vision
products will be featured as well.  Representatives of HumanWare,
Freedom Scientific, Code Factory, GW Micro, the American Printing

House for the Blind, LevelStar, and the iLAB project from Penn

State

University will appear, among others.

I am advertising V.I.S.T.A. widely because this appears to be

the

first event of its kind ever to have been orchestrated for

Michiana:

that is, the region which encompasses northern Indiana and
southwestern Michigan.  Detailed information, along with contact
information and a registration link, may be found on my personal

Web

page: http://kanebrolin.com/.

Feel free to contact me about this off-list at

kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxxx

If you heard about this from a mailing list, please take care not

to

respond directly to the list, out of courtesy to those who

archive

list content or who do not wish to participate in or hear about
V.I.S.T.A.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,

Kane Brolin
Mishawaka, Indiana USA

[gps-talkusers] e: Announcing Blindness Tech Fair For Those In Central United States

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