The annual competition is not because of their blindness, but because of their ability to succeed in spite of it, the top blind students from across the United States and Canada put their knowledge of the braille code to the test in the only national academic competition for blind students in the country — The National Braille Challenge. “The employment numbers for blind people are significantly lower than those of sighted people in the same age group,” said Nancy Niebrugge, director of the Braille Challenge. “But 90 percent of blind people who are gainfully employed are braille readers, and...
