Saturday, May 19: All Day Schedule

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We want to thank the following companies for participating in the MDAD Symposium’s Sponsor Program. Their generous support is vital to the MDAD’s continuing efforts to provide quality education, advocacy, and support for its members.

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Friday Night
Saturday Night

Hello!

I want to tell you about the Womanless Beauty Pageant that will take place on May 18, 2012 at the Baltimore Convention Center. The pageant will not feature women, there will be men instead!

There will be gowns, skits and bathing suits. The audience will vote for best three men. We will pass out the boxes with contestants’ names and the audience will put in $1 in boxes of the top three contestants that you want to vote for.

The finalists will be asked some questions related to current concerns in the Deaf community.

The Judges will cast their vote for Mr. MDAD.

You wouldn’t want to miss this show! The admission cost is $10 online and $12 at the door. We are anticipating a good number of people. You can register online here!

Don’t forget, it is on May 18 at 7 pm at the Baltimore Convention Center!

We are still looking for more men to join and have fun. We will have a prize for Mr. MDAD including the crown!

See you there!

Hello!

My name is Chris Kaftan. I am currently the vice president of MDAD and also serve as the chairperson of the 2012 MDAD Symposium.

I am vlogging about the Symposium that will take place in two weeks, on May 18-19.

On Friday, we have several workshops scheduled about mental health, your body, taking care of yourself, such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, healthy eating, heart screening, blood pressure testing, and so forth. We will have concurrent workshops in two different rooms.

There will be other workshops such as legal aid, introduction to firearms training, using CDIs, and what to do if you are denied an interpreter and how to fight for your legal rights under the ADA. We have many different workshops happening on Friday.

On Friday night, we have a special event: the MDAD Womanless Beauty Pageant sponsored by MDAD. What is the Womanless Beauty Pageant? We will have not women, but MEN! The men will showcase their talents and the audience will be able to vote on their top finalists. It’ll be a fun event for all of us! We will have happy hour in downtown Baltimore after the Womanless Beauty Pageant.

On Saturday, we will have the MDAD General Meeting all morning and you will have a chance to meet Lisa Kornberg, the ODHH Executive Director and Howard Rosenblum, NAD’s CEO. We will also have Financial Feud sponsored by Kramer Financial in the afternoon along with different workshops.

I hope to see YOU there in two weeks on May 18-19!

Download the flyer as a PDF.

Greetings!

My name is Lenore Swartzwelder, MDAD Symposium 2012 Volunteer Coordinator. I am in need of volunteers for the upcoming symposium on May 18-19 at the Baltimore Convention Center.

If you are interested, kindly contact me at volunteer@mdad.tv at your earliest convenience.

Thanks and have a great day.

Hi, my name is Jehanne McCullough and I am a sophomore in Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD). I am also the vice-president for MSD’s Jr. NAD chapter. Last November, along with two other students that are the president and secretary, we went to Jr. NAD conference at California School for the Deaf, Riverside. Thanks to Maryland Association of the Deaf (MDAD) who sponsored us for this trip with $500, we gained a lot of experience from the conference. There were many workshops and speeches that we saw, and they talked about different things. I learned a lot from those workshops. Among the people who led the workshops, two were from Maryland! That’s nice. One of workshops talked about how to be an assertive leader instead of using passive or aggressive methods. Another talked about the power of media, and that workshop led us to set up MSD Jr. NAD’s Facebook page after we learned about how powerful media can be! Even Miss NAD Deaf America, Rachel Mazique, gave us a workshop. There was a pageant night, MSD did not participate as it was last minute for us, but we still had fun and learned a lot during the pageant. Some who were in the pageant discussed many things like Deaf issues, bullying, and more. I met a lot of people, and it’s great networking opportunity for me. There are different group projects like Round Table where they discussed the proposals for Jr. NAD General Assembly later. Another is Empty Bowl group where they painted the bowls to be auctioned and the proceeds would be donated to charity. I am in George Veditz Video group where we made a Public Service Announcement (PSA) during the weekend about empowering to youth. We went to all workshops and on the last day, there was General Assembly where all of proposals the Round Table agreed on were being brought up. Delegates voted on those proposals. My school has two delegates who are the president of Jr. NAD and me, the vice-president and one observer. We the delegates at the conference reviewed all of proposals in General Assembly and voted for or against on different proposals. We supported the proposal to have two Jr. NAD representatives going to NAD conference this summer, and the proposal got passed. On last night, I met many people and would never ever forget this conference. This conference really helped me to be a better leader, and when I came back home in Maryland, I became more active and better leader around my community. The conference was really worth it! Again, I want to thank MDAD for sponsoring me to go to the conference and to make it possible!

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ASL Version links:
Unveiling e-Newsletter Vlog
President Corner Vlog
Early Hearing Detection/Intervention Vlog
MDAD Board Off to a Quick Start Vlog
2012 MDAD Symposium Update Vlog
2011 MDAD Conference A Success Vlog
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Legislative Awareness Day Vlog
Being in Miss Deaf Maryland’s Heels Vlog