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Carroll Center announces Braille Challenge finalists from Northeast Regional Braille Literacy Celebration!

We are very proud to announce that nine of 34 students who participated in the
Carroll Center’s Regional Braille Literacy Celebration on February 9th have
been identified by the Braille Institute of America, the program’s host
organization, as having scores which placed them among the top readers and
writers of Braille in their respective age groups, as follows:

Apprentice: Jack [...]

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Carroll Center students return from Peruvian trek

Two blind climbers pose with their blind guide
Josh Pearson and Jameyanne Fuller pose with with famed blind mountain climber, Erik Weihenmayer before their Peruvian trek.

Josh Pearson and Jameyanne Fuller, students in Carroll Center educational programs, have returned home, after successfully completing their trek through the Andes mountains of Peru The two students had an experience of a lifetime and will be sharing their personal comments at a reception at the Carroll Center, soon to be announced.

“I don’t know who I was before and I don’t know who I am now, but I know I’m different,” _— Josh Pearson_

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