Unique "Travel-with-a-Disability" Idea: The Bookshare Summer Road Trip Contest

By Scott Rains on May 27, 2010 4:58 PM | 0 Comments

Benetech's Bookshare project has this great program with a twist on "travel-with-a-disability" - the Bookshare Summer Road Trip Contest!

They also have a new Benetech Fellow for 6 months -- me.

How many states can you visit this summer?

Enter the Bookshare Summer Road Trip Contest, and you could win cool prizes like: iPod Nanos, Victor Reader Stream Digital Book Players, and more! Enter today: http://www.tfaforms.com/156882

Students in grades K-12 with qualified print disabilities, such as blindness, low vision, physical disabilities, and severe learning disabilities that affect reading can join Bookshare as individual members and enter the contest.

How do you play?
1) Enter the contest: http://www.tfaforms.com/156882
2) Download and read a book about a state (book list live June 1)
3) Send us a short text about what you thought about the book (online form live June 1)

The more kids read, the greater their chance at winning awesome prizes! Winners will be chosen from grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

Enter the contest today! http://www.tfaforms.com/156882

Still need a Bookshare membership? Sign up today with promo code - roadtrip: http://www.bookshare.org/signUpType

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