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Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Press Releases

28 Press Releases
  • Published on June 2, 2025 - 19:16 GMT

    Media Minute - Friendship

    “I like seeing other people who are blind or visually impaired. When it gets closer to the TSBVI camps, it gets more and more exciting. I like going to restaurants. It’s really fun and you get to go on a lot of field trips!” shared Helena, a student who …

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  • Published on April 30, 2025 - 18:40 GMT

    Media Minute - Science

    During the recent Elementary Science Fair, students demonstrated projects about motion, sound, energy, plant-life, robotics, and chemistry. They were asked what inspired their specific topics: Jackson, who experimented with sound amplification, didn’t …

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  • Published on February 27, 2025 - 18:40 GMT

    Media Minute - Low Vision Awareness

    February is Low Vision Awareness Month! TSBVI empowers students with low vision who are served on our campus in Comprehensive and Short Term Programs, around the state through Outreach Programs, and in Curriculum publications. This Media Minute will …

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  • Published on January 24, 2025 - 16:12 GMT

    Media Minute - Girls’ School of Austin and TSBVI

    In the fall of 2012, TSBVI became neighbors with The Girls’ School of Austin (GSA) when a campus renovation caused GSA to move temporarily to a local church which sits adjacent to the TSBVI campus. GSA PE Coach Jenny Sparks, was looking for a place for her …

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  • Published on December 10, 2024 - 19:32 GMT

    Media Minute - Residential Hobby Hour

    For the past four years on Wednesday evenings on the TSBVI campus as many as twenty students from several dorms gather for “Hobby Hour.” Residential Instructors, led by Danielle Caren, prepare and introduce craft activities to each student, making …

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  • Published on November 4, 2024 - 19:53 GMT

    Media Minute - Career Education

    Many TSBVI staff and students look forward to a delicious lunch on Friday’s made at the campus Bistro, one of the on-campus work environments in Career Education offered at TSBVI. Students prepare and serve meals, often with fresh produce they’ve grown …

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  • Published on October 10, 2024 - 19:02 GMT

    Media Minute - White Cane Day

    October 2024 we celebrated the 60th anniversary of White Cane Day! On October 6, 1964, a Joint Resolution of Congress, was signed into law authorizing the President of the United States to proclaim October 15th of each year as “White Cane Safety Day.” This …

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  • Published on September 11, 2024 - 16:52 GMT

    Media Minute - Summer Programs

    Where can you work as a design intern at a local sculpture garden, travel through an art installation of over 8,000 hanging colorful bulbs, learn how to play the Native American flute, engage in blind fencing, and build a model of the eye out of everyday …

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