KidZone News Desk

LOOK KidZone

New Bingley Hall, Birmingham 13th 14 and 15th July

run by LOOK and the team of young volunteer members with a visual impairment.

Many children and young people came to experience KidZone @ QAC Sight Village for the first time as a group or as an independent family.

They all took part in the following….

KidZone Gaming Zone -play accessible audio and low vision games

– Run by OutLOOK Member – Mike Thorton (studying Computer Security) with Azabat

KidZone Newsdesk -take part in a newsdesk (be a KidZone roving reporter and receive your news
article mixed with music on the day on CD or by podcast)

– Run by OutLOOK Member – Richard Zimbler, Ed Bates (studying music tech) with Allformats

KidZone Treasure Hunt / Techno Trail
- follow the KidZone techno trail around QAC Sight Village and find out
about some of the services and products relevant to young people

– Run by OutLOOK Member – Verity Landon and Viewplus

KidZone Sports Arena
- have a go around our tandem riding track and get involve in British Blind
Sports demos

– Run by OutLOOK Member Daniel Evans (as captain of the local tenpin bowling team) and British Blind Sports, and local Tandem project

KidZone Techno Arts Table
- learn how to create your own accessible website, learn more the
accessible apple iphone and its various apps, come inside our photography
studio and produce your own portraits, experience and create various tactile and talking images.

– Run by OutLOOK Member Anna Binns and Mickel Smithen (studying photography) with the Disabled Photographers Society

Screenreader.net ran a prize draw to win an accessible iphone for everyone that attended LOOK KidZone

A whole range of new activities are set and being organised by young people for 2011

for more information please email Vicky Smith, Youth Development Officer