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  • Soldering wires nonvisually is .. well, a BLAST! @BlackbyrdFly @COSpaceGrant

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    Dan Burke

    Soldering wires nonvisually is .. well, a BLAST! @BlackbyrdFly @COSpaceGrant

    Somebody had to do it. So Jamie Principato decided she would take the skills she’d learned and taught herself as a blind Physics student involved with a Colorado Space Grant rocket project and teach them to other blind students. That’s where the idea of BLAST came from – Blind Learning All Skills Too launched on…

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  • How many ways can the blind enjoy #Eclipse2017? #ShareLittleton

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    Dan Burke

    How many ways can the blind enjoy #Eclipse2017? #ShareLittleton

    Quite a few, it turns out. Staff and students held an Eclipse Party to celebrate and enjoy the 92 percent coverage of the sun today. Students in Home Management prepared a black bean salsa and cookies to start things off about 10:30 this morning as we took time to learn a little more about the…

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  • Thanks for stopping by for our 2017 #WesternWelcomeWeek Tours!

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    Dan Burke

    Thanks for stopping by for our 2017 #WesternWelcomeWeek Tours!

    More than 70 people stopped by the Colorado Center for the Blind on Monday for a tour, and we’d like to send out a big “Thank you!” to all of you! This is the third year we’ve opened our doors for tours as part of Littleton’s Western Welcome Week. We’re always excited to meet new…

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  • Come one, come all! Tour CCB from 3-7 PM today for #WesternWelcomeWeek!

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    Dan Burke

    Come one, come all! Tour CCB from 3-7 PM today for #WesternWelcomeWeek!

    We’re excited to open our doors to the Littleton community once again during Western Welcome Week. We will give tours to all comers between 3 and 7 p.m. today. Our students will be in their classes and staff will talk about what we teach in each area – Braille, Cane Travel, Home Management, Technology and…

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  • Weather, Robots and Chemistry: Summer Science Seminar is Saturday!

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    Dan Burke

    Weather, Robots and Chemistry: Summer Science Seminar is Saturday!

    Blind people can and are scientists, even though too often blind youth are discouraged or set off to the side in science classes. With that in mind, each year we conduct a Saturday Science Seminar in conjunction with our summer programs. It’s not exclusive, however, as blind youth are invited whether or not they’re in…

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  • Summer Youth Explore the Garden

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    Dan Burke

    Summer Youth Explore the Garden

    Today we start up again after our annual trip to the National Fedeeration of the Blind Convention in Orlando, but the CCB summer students got back in the swing of things yesterday. Since it was our appointed gardening day with the Master Gardeners, summer students and staff got the privilege of bringing in the first…

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  • Celebrating Our Senior Programs in New Video!

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    Dan Burke

    Celebrating Our Senior Programs in New Video!

    We’re proud of our senior programs and how they have changed the lives of seniors who have lost vision and the people who love them. We’re excited about how those programs continue to grow – from the residential Seniors in Charge (twice a year), to four support groups (one in Spanish), to ever-expanding opportunities to…

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  • NF Challenge Olympic Day 2017

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    Dan Burke

    NF Challenge Olympic Day 2017

    There wasn’t time to sit still till lunch was served, but none were inclined to do so at Saturday’s #NFChallenge Olympic Day 2017. There were just too many things to try out – beep baseball demonstration with the Colorado Storm, judo and power-lifting, goal ball and tandem bicycling with Eye-Cycle! Everybody got to take a…

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  • Fitness & Sports Tomorrow for #NFChallenge #OlympicDay2017! @WEFitwellness @USABA

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    Dan Burke

    Fitness & Sports Tomorrow for #NFChallenge #OlympicDay2017! @WEFitwellness @USABA

    It’s happening here tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. Thanks to our partners at WE Fit Wellness and United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA). Contributing will be Eye-Cycle, Achilles Denver and members of the Colorad Storm Beep Baseball team. And at lunch there wil be a keynote address from current CCB studentChaz Davis, a member…

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