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AUTISM DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION PANEL
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Division of Special Education, Parent Services; and Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System (FDLRS) –South, present:
Autism: Get Informed with the Professionals
Discover the different resources available for our children with our panel:
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Theresa Becerra – President, Autism Society of Miami-Dade County
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Maricarmen Saleta – Educational Support Specialist from UM-CARD
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Jennifer Strauss - President, Autism Consulting & Training, Inc.
When?
Thursday, February 26, 2009
6:00 P.M. to 7:45 P.M.
Where?
FDLRS-South
5555 S.W. 93rd Avenue
Miami, FL 33165
(Next to Blue Lakes Elem.)
Please note: This workshop will be conducted in English only
If you plan to attend, please call or email Ana Real-Serrano 305-274-3501 X 171 or anareal@dadeschools.net. If you require special accommodations including the services of a Sign Language interpreter, you must contact the ADA office (305-995-4650) at least two weeks prior to the event taking place.
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CHILDREN INVITED TO SUBMIT DESIGNS FOR UNICEF GREETING CARD CONTEST
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The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced today the call for entries for its annual Pier 1 greeting card contest, in which a child’s winning design is turned into an official UNICEF greeting card, sold exclusively at Pier 1 Imports stores across the country during the 2009 holiday season. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of this, as well as all UNICEF cards sold at Pier 1, go to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to help in its mission to decrease the number of preventable childhood deaths from 25,000 each day to zero.
The contest, open to children ages 14 and under, begins next week on February 1 and runs through March 6, with the winner announced in April. This year’s theme is "Joy to the World." In addition to having their design turned into a greeting card, the winner will receive a grand prize $5,000 scholarship, along with $500 worth of art supplies for their school.
 New this year is a “People’s Choice Award,” in which visitors to the Pier 1 website can vote on their favorite design from April 1 to 15. The “People’s Choice” winner will receive $500 worth of art supplies.
Entry forms are available in all Pier 1 Imports stores nationwide while supplies last, online at pier1.com and unicefusa.org, or by calling Pier 1’s Customer Relations Department at 1.800.245.4595. All entries must be hand-drawn and received by Pier 1 Imports’ Corporate Headquarters by March 6, 2009. The children’s artwork will be judged on artistic quality and creative interpretation of the theme “Joy to the World.”
The 2008 contest marked a second win for the Kao family of Roseville, CA with younger brother Wesley designing a card featuring five snowmen and snowwomen holding on to a string of lights. The previous year, Wesley’s sister Josephine was one of two winners for her design of colorful candy canes striped with flags from around the world.
The card contest started in 1992 as a way to help raise awareness among U.S. school children about UNICEF’s important work and has inspired kids from coast to coast to use their creative talents in a meaningful way. This year’s contest marks 24 years of a partnership between the specialty home furnishings retailer and the international children’s organization. Pier 1 started selling UNICEF greeting cards in 1985 and is now the world’s largest retailer of UNICEF greeting cards, having raised over $26 million for UNICEF.
Funds from the sale of cards support UNICEF programs that provide lifesaving medicines, vaccines, nutritious foods, primary education, clean water and sanitation and emergency relief for millions of children and women in 156 countries and territories.
For more information about UNICEF or this contest, please click here.
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National Writing Contest for High School Students with Hearing Loss
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Calling all writers!
Use the power of words to express your thoughts and feelings - and win prizes!
High school students with hearing loss in 10th or 11th grade can enter the fourth annual RIT SpiRIT Writing Contest, and compete for prizes, including a summer camp scholarship. Winners will have their choice of a scholarship and travel expenses to the Explore Your Future program at RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, or a $500 cash prize.
 Who may enter?
10th and 11th grade students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
What are the prizes?
There will be up to four winners — two 10th graders and two 11th graders.
Winners have their choice of a scholarship and paid travel expenses to the Explore Your Future program, a summer career exploration program at Rochester Institute of Technology for students with hearing loss (a parent will also receive an all-expenses-paid two-day visit to RIT at the conclusion of EYF), OR a $500 cash prize.
Winners and their teachers also receive a plaque.
Enter your work today!
Teachers:
Encourage your talented students to enter!
Each school district or school for the deaf may submit up to two entries from deaf or hard-of-hearing students enrolled in 10th or 11th grade. School districts or schools for the deaf should determine which students will be selected to participate.
Click here to learn more, click here to enter!
Sponsored by:
Rochester Institute of Technology
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rochester, New York
Deadline: March 15, 2009
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SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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The Miami-Dade Community Action Agency's (CAA) Advisory Committees are providing scholarship awards in the amount of $1500 to assist students and families in financing their education.
Eligibility requirements:
Any person 16-25 years old that has obtained a high school diploma or GED equivalent and who is a resident of the following target areas: Accion, Allapattah, Brownsville, Coconut Grove, Culmer, Edison/Little River, Florida City, Goulds, Hialeah, Liberty City, Narnnja, apa-Locka, Perrine, South Beach, South Miami or Wynwood.
Criteria for selection:
Academic Achievement
Community Service
Employment History
Financial Circumstances
Applicant's family income must fall within 125% of HHS Poverty Income Guidelines.
Click here for more information about this program.
Deadline: May 1st, 2009
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