Ready to be a Braille winner
A 12-year-old Federal Way girl will be the only person from Washington in this weekend's National Braille Challenge, with contestants competing in reading comprehension, Braille speed and accuracy, proofreading, spelling and reading tactile charts and graphs.
Seattle Times staff reporter
GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Su Park, 12, shown with her mother, Eun Kyoung Hong, will compete Saturday in California.
Su Park lugged her heavy Braille typewriter to the kitchen table, sat down and raised her hands to the keys.
"Give me any sentence and watch how fast I can type it," she said to a room of visitors.
In seconds, the 12-year-old noisily tapped out the sentence and asked for another.
Su is practicing for the National Braille Challenge. She is one of 60 U.S. and Canadian students selected from nearly 800 competitors to attend the contest in Los Angeles, and is the only contestant from Washington.
Su, a Federal Way Public Academy sixth-grader, will compete Saturday to win the grand prize — a $3,000 savings bond and a note-taking device.
Contestants compete in reading comprehension, Braille speed and accuracy, proofreading, spelling and
