World Around You

World Around You is the Clerc Center's e-magazine for deaf and hard of hearing teens. Distributed via e-mail, it provides motivation for independent and guided reading and creative writing. World Around You fosters a sense of community and enhances its readers' self-esteem by focusing on the achievements of young people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It also sponsors with Gallaudet University a national essay, art, and sign contest for deaf and hard of hearing students with scholarship money awarded to the top place winners. For more information about World Around You, please call 800-526-9105 or 202-651-5340 (V/TTY); fax: 202-651-5708; visit our Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu; or e-mail Timothy.Worthylake@gallaudet.edu.

World Around You is available online:

Gallaudet National Essay, Art, and Sign Contest for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

For the 2007 Gallaudet National Essay, Art, and Sign contest, the Clerc Center is teaming up with the U.S. Deaflympics Committee and asks students to respond to the questions: “What does ‘going for the gold’ mean to you? How do you go for the gold in your life?”

For more information, visit: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/deaflympics/.
For information on the 2006 contest winners, visit: http://pr.gallaudet.edu/dailydigest/?ID=8986&Date=6/19/2006

To download the 2007 contest entry form go to: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/deaflympics/images/2007-entry-form.pdf.