Dear Friends and Colleagues, The National Braille Press's Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation deadline is fast approaching, please help us spread the word! The Touch of Genius Prize was developed to inspire entrepreneurs, educators or inventors to continue the promotion of braille and tactile literacy for blind and deafblind people worldwide. This prize can be granted for innovative and accessible computer software, Android applications, iOS applications, or tactile hardware that promotes braille and/or tactile literacy. NBP encourages all applicants to think outside the box to what can be used to help improve the lives of blind people. The winner of this prize will receive up to $20,000, which will help them to continue to innovate in the fields of technology and education of blind people. Frank Gibney and the Gibney Family Foundation, helped fund and establish this award in 2007, inspiring people to go beyond what was thought possible. The deadline to apply is January 12, 2018. For more information, including how to apply, please visit touchofgeniusprize.org. Meaghan Colerick Administrative Assistant National Braille Press 88 St. Stephen Street Boston, MA 02115 http://www.nbp.org/ www.nbp.org Phone: 617-425-2412 Toll Free: 888-965-8965 Fax: 617-437-0456 From: Edward Bell [mailto:ebell at pdrib.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:06 PM To: Meaghan Colerick <mcolerick at nbp.org> Subject: RE: Update: Touch of Genius Prize Can you send me the solicitation information so I can put it out on lists today? Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC Director, Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness Louisiana Tech University 210 Woodard Hall PO Box 3158 Ruston LA 71272 Office: 318.257.4554 Fax: 318.257.2259 (Fax) Skype: edwardbell2010 ebell at latech.edu www.pdrib.com http://www.pdrib.com ************************************************************** "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -- Stephen Jay Gould From: Meaghan Colerick [mailto:mcolerick at nbp.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 2:03 PM To: ebell at latech.edu ; literacy2 at mindspring.com ; jdix at loc.gov ; julwicksacca at gmail.com ; noel at personaldatasystems.com ; lotfi_merabet at meei.harvard.edu ; joann.becker at perkins.org Cc: Brian Mac Donald > Subject: Update: Touch of Genius Prize Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. Brian and I wanted to reach out to you all with an update on the Touch of Genius Prize. Although we have gotten some questions and some potential submissions, we do not yet have any applicants. I just did an email push yesterday, and will try to get more outreach this week; however, this may change some of our timeframe a bit. Before we think about changing any of the dates, I will see what we get from now until after the holidays and check back in with everyone. If we still don't have any applicants by then, we can start a discussion about possibly moving the TOG into the spring (April/May). Please let me know if you if you have any questions. Happy Holidays! Meaghan Colerick Administrative Assistant National Braille Press 88 St. Stephen Street Boston, MA 02115 http://www.nbp.org/ www.nbp.org Phone: 617-425-2412 Toll Free: 888-965-8965 Fax: 617-437-0456