Blind Child Places in National Contest

Blind Child Places in National Contest

Future Reflections Fall 1990, Vol. 9 No. 3
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BLIND CHILD PLACES IN
NATIONAL CONTEST
This article is reprinted from the Baltimore Sun
Paper, August 7, 1990. If the name Sora Mindy
Cook sounds familiar, perhaps it is because you
read her name in the list of winners in the article
about our NFB Braille Contest also in thus issue.
A Baltimore youngster has won second place in
the "Stick-to-it-Spirit" national essay contest
commemorating the 60th anniversary of Scotch
tape. Sora Mindy Cook, who is blind, won $250
for her story about learning to use a special cane,
called a crook. "Even though learning how to use
a cane is very hard, I still kept trying..! stuck to it
and now I can use my cane," wrote Sora, 7, who
typed her essay on a Braille typewriter. First
place winner in the contest was Andrea Leib of
Centerville, Utah, who wrote about a 12-year-old
boy's battle back from serious burns. She won
$500 and 6,000 feet of Scotch tape for her school.
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