Challenge Sponsors

The Braille Challenge® Major Sponsors 2010

Presenting Sponsor: THE BRAILLE INSTITUTE AUXILIARY

The Braille Challenge 2010 was made possible, in part, by the generosity of the following donors:

Finals Competition in Los Angeles, June 25–26, 2010

Major Prize Sponsor:
Freedom Scientific—PAC Mate™ devices with a refreshable braille display to each of the five first place winners and the Teacher of the Year

Major Donors:
Awards Banquet Sponsors: CARL and JEANETTE GOLDBAUM

Savings Bonds Sponsor: WALTER LANTZ FOUNDATION 
 
Opening Ceremony Sponsor: dot.dat.inc.

Teacher of the Year Award Sponsors: DOT and RICK NELSON

Breakfast and Lunch Sponsors: MR. and MRS. FRANKLIN D. HALLADAY

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE SPONSORS
The Dockweiler Foundation in Memory of Marcus E. Crahan, Jr.
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

GOLD CIRCLE SPONSORS
Jill Atterbury

SILVER CIRCLE SPONSORS
Randy Brown                    
Mary Burson                     
City National Bank                
Delta Gamma Foundation
Los Angeles Breakfast Club Foundation
Homer A. Ralles
Gerrit and Nancy Vaessen

STUDENT SPONSORSHIPS
Braille Revival League        
Gerald and Mary Jo Brown in memory of Katherine M. Krupa
Herb Friedenthal    
Florencine Gerard
D. Solomon & A. Frayre                
John and Alice Wallace
Philip Woodward

IN-KIND/PRIZE SPONSORS
Barnes & Noble Booksellers        
Flip Cam    
In Focus

Preliminary Regional Events, January-March

Prize Sponsors:

Seedlings Braille Books for Children – A gift certificate for either one free book or a T-shirt from their catalog for each regional preliminary event accepting gifts

National Braille Press – A gift certificate to be used toward the purchase of braille books for each regional preliminary event accepting gifts

The Braille Institute Auxiliary – A cash stipend to be used for regional prizes.

Braille Institute is proud to welcome our newest media partner, radio station KPCC-89.3 FM, part of the member-supported Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) network. Reaching more than 600,000 listeners every week, SCPR is the most listened to public radio news service of any kind in Southern California and serves the diverse communities of Southern California with award winning local news coverage as well as the most NPR (National Public Radio) content available anywhere in the region.The mission of Southern California Public Radio is to strengthen the civic and cultural bonds that unite Southern California's diverse communities by providing the highest quality news and information service through radio and other interactive media.