Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

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  • What is the Colorado Center for the Blind All About? #COGivesDay17

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    Dan Burke

    Text - What is the Colorado Center for the Blind All About? CCB Street sign and ColoradoGives 2017 Logo

    We put this video together especially to link from our Colorado Gives Day page this year for those who might not have heard of us or know exactly what we’re about. Colorado Gives Day is December 5, and donations received that day online receive a share of an incentive fund, as well as being subject…

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  • A Peek at Hands-on with the “Shared Visions” 2017 Exhibit @ArapahoeCC #TactileAccess

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    Dan Burke

    Adia, Mason M. and Cezar look at the Old Man Wincing while Ravi reads the Braille description

    Here are a few photos from the Shared Visions reception at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College on Thursday night. Everyone got hands on with pieces from Nathan Abels’ painting and drawing classes. CCB students also had laser-cuts of drawings they made in Ann Cunningham’s art class with accompanying Haiku, and…

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  • Mark your calendars or schedule a gift now -Dec. 5 is Colorado Gives Day! #cogivesday

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    Dan Burke

    Colorado Gives Day Logo 2017

    That’s right – it’s here again! Colorado Gives Day is December 5, just a month away! So, if you’re considering a holiday gift to the Colorado Center for the Blind to help us offer training and programs so that blind people can “Take Charge with Confidence”, why not on Colorado Gives Day? CGD is Colorado’s…

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

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    Dan Burke

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    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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  • Pleased to host #BrailleChallenge and the #SRC all today!

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    Dan Burke

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    Yes, we’re pleased and excite to be the host site for the Braille Challenge for 2017! Fifteen Metro-area students ages 6 to 17 are here to demostrate their skils in reading, writing and more using Braille. It’s our third year to host the Metro Challenge, which is sponsored by the Braille Institute of America and…

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  • Not Exactly Winding the Year Down

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    Dan Burke

    A group of CCB students pose around a cart with six large trays of goodies to give out

    We’re in our final week – final days, really – of the 2016 year at the Colorado Center for the Blind. It’s not exactly like winding down, but more like an all-cylinders-open surge for the finish line. Alejandro went on a support drop yesterday, and is cooking a big meal tomorrow. Ryan served his mini-meal…

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  • Friday’s Fish Flaying

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    Dan Burke

    Two sets of blue gloved hands exploring a shark from either side of the table

    Okay, it wasn’t that gruesome! But it was the 11th year that Professor Terry Harrison has led a shark dissection at the Colorado Center for the Blind. The idea was, and still is, to give blind youth a chance to get really hands-on with science. In this case, anatomy. Every year, Professor Harrison arrives about…

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  • Shark Dissection with @ArapahoeCC’s Terry Harrison Friday! #STEM

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    Dan Burke

    teacher and student bend over a dog shark

    It’s that time of the year. Just as we start to think about turkey and stuffing with cranberries, it’s time for blind kids in the area to get hands-on with shark innards! As he has for more than a decade, Arapahoe Community College’s Biology Professor Terry Harrison will lead a shark dissection at CCB on…

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  • Tactile Art Exhibits Coming to @ArapahoeCC & UCAR @ArtACunningham

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    Dan Burke

    ACC and CCB staff and students around the Mandala

    Tactile art and art shows are in the works this fall, with collaboration and coordination from the Colorado Center for the Blind’s Ann Cunningham as the common medium. First, Arapahoe Community College’s now-annual “Shared Visions” tactile art show will open with a reception on November 10 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts from 5…

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  • Everybody loves the #WesternWelcomeWeek Parade!

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    Dan Burke

    a group of people carrying white canes walk down the middle of a street

    Students and staff are getting ready for tomorrow’s Western Welcome Week Parade – the highlight of the 10-day celebration in Littleton. After opening our doors for tours and at the same time graduating two of our students, it’s a fun way to end the week. What could be better than walking down the middle of…

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