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  • Our First FAST In-person for 2021!

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    Dan Burke

    FAST - (Fun Activities & Skills Training) logo

    March to the Beat of Your Own Drum Our first 2021 in-person FAST activity for youth will fittingly be all about movement, and a little music! Sign up for our April 24 FAST! Who: Blind students of all ages and their families Where: Colorado Center for the Blind,2233 W Shepperd Ave. Littleton, CO 80120 When:…

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  • Run, Walk or Donate to the 2019 #6DotDashCO to Support Braille Literacy #ComeRunwithUs

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    Dan Burke

    National Federation of the Blind of Colorado 6 Dot Dash 5K Logo

    Bring the whole family and #comerunwithus #6dotdashco. You can Read more about this year’s 6 Dot Dash 5K, or Go Straight to the Registration Page. The National Federation of the Blind of Colorado and the Colorado Center for the Blind are partnering again for our 2nd 6 Dot Dash 5k, June 29! Our first year…

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  • Join us with @NFBCO & @ComcastColo for the First #6DotDashCO on June 24!

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    Dan Burke

    Four runners with the NFBCO 6 Dot Dash Logo in the lower-right corner

    Dear Friends – We want to bring your attention to an exciting event taking place here at the Colorado Center for the Blind on Sunday, June 24. At least, it will start and finish at the Center, because it is the national Federation of the Blind of Colorado’s first 6 Dot Dash 5K, and we…

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  • NF Challenge Olympic Day 2017

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    Dan Burke

    CCB Summer students Mary and Cheyene get on the tandem bikes with EyeCycle Volunteers while Christina waits her turn

    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

    News Icon

    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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  • Congrats to Another Martial Arts Class!

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    Dan Burke

    Martial Arts group - Orange Belts and Certificates - Travis, Ceci, Mike, Serena, David, Showe, Chaz and Rachael

    Another Martial Arts group finished up on Tuesday, earning their orange belts from instructor Rachel. At the start of the ceremony, Rachel commented that each time she comes she is more aware of the spirit of independence and confidence that students and staff at the Center embody. From left to right are Travis, Ceci, Mike,…

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  • Swolly-ness is Holiness: Ryan’s Pull Up Station

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    Dan Burke

    Ryan at the Pull Up Station doing leg lift pull ups

    Everyone does a project in Wood Shop, and since Ryan is a fitness professional he built a pull-up station in our gym:

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  • A Bustling Day in the Gym

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    Dan Burke

    A group of Martial Arts Students to the left and a row of Archery Students to the right

    Okay, Tuesdays can get a little wild anyway, what with Seniors coming and filling up our large conference room all morning. You gotta believe us – we love having them! But meanwhile, down in the gym … We had both Martial arts and Archery happening all at once. The wildest imaginations might hve the martial…

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  • Bullseye with Blind Archery: #LivetheLifeYouWant @NSCD

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    Dan Burke

    Petr K., Mike B. Chaz and C.G. Aiming their Bows at the Archery Firing line with NCSD Instructors

    Zen and the Art of Archery was a popular book in the 1970s among a certain crowd in which martial arts practitioners became adept at hitting the bullseye while blindfolded. What does that mean? Who really knows, other than it was the era of the “Kung Fu” TV series. Nonetheless, our partners at NSCD arranged…

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  • Body Pads and Karate Punches: Tuesday’s Orange Belts

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    Dan Burke

    Another round of testing for the Martial Arts class on Tuesday was followed by an awards ceremony. The entire Center turned out in the gym as five students and Travel Instructor Steve Patten all received orange belts from Karate Denver instructors Rachel and Travis. Steve is a bit of a ringer, of course, since he…

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