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On this issue (Volume 6 - Issue 6): CTE Showcase • Baby Chickens in ELC • Math Hacker • APD cadets provided a presentation on Deaf awareness • TSD Welcomes TFC Commissioners to New Facilities • Spotlight: Promotoras and TSD is accredited by CEASD!

Austin, Texas – Twenty published authors from across the country are in Austin for the first Deaf Authors Book Festival (DABF), May 6-7, hosted by Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) at 1102 South Congress Avenue. The two-day event with author signings, panel discussions and informal chats, brings together a diverse selection of written works in a variety of genres by authors from Deaf, hard of hearing, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC communities. Free and open to the public, everyone will find something to their appeal, including the Deaf culture buff, the sci-fi geek, the sports fanatic, comic book lovers, and even RVs whose home is on the road.

Austin, Texas – April 28, 2022– Students from Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) represent Team U.S.A. at the international summer games for elite athletes who are deaf and hard of hearing. In Brazil today, they’ve joined an estimated 4,500 athletes, from more than 100 countries, to begin training for the summer Deaflympics, May 1 – 15, 2022.

Austin, Texas – The first Deaf Authors Book Festival (DABF) comes to Texas School for the Deaf (TSD), May 6-7, and features 25 books written by 21 Deaf authors from all parts of the United States. Free to the public, DABF brings together a diverse group of Deaf, hard of hearing, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC authors displaying their books for sale in a variety of genres, certain to appeal to the Deaf culture or history buff, the sci-fi geek, the sports fanatic, magic lovers, and even RVers.

*Update* The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has set a deadline to use all awarded SSES funds by May 6, 2022.

On this issue (Volume 6 - Issue 5): TSD's VEX Robotics Teams Score High in Recent Tournaments • Sunshine 2.0 Performs at TSD for Black History Month • Two TSD Athletes Receive High Accolades by NDIAA • Chess Champions • Our Book Tasting Party at the MS & HS Library • Education and Advocacy Summit • Ribbon Cutting Open House.