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We attended a conference

October 21st, 2013 at 02:27 pm

DW and I attended a conference near Detroit on Saturday. It was a conference for parents of children with special needs. Tickets would have cost us $65 each, but we had our tickets given to us. Our niece's MIL works for an adoption agency near Detroit, and her agency had purchased a booth, and received complimentary tickets, and she gave two of them to us.

The conference was good. I'm certainly glad we went. We were able to find two break out sessions that had very good information for us.

There were six break outs in two time slots (three sessions per time slot). The way the conference was structured was that each of the break out speakers spoke to the entire group in the morning for 15 minutes each, to give an idea of their break out. And, in the break out, they went into greater depth. So, we had a chance to listen to the all of the speakers.

The conference was put together largely by a husband and wife who have a special needs son. Apparently they have visited 14 states, trying to find Drs., therapists, etc. for their son. They invited six of the people that they have found who have helped them to speak at this conference.

Half of the speakers represented alternative type medicine, which doesn't appeal to us.

I actually won two door prizes! The first was a small picture frame with a Best Buy gift card taped to it. I'm still not sure of the value of the gist card, but would guess it's $20 or $25.

The second door prize was the "Grand Prize" and it was a 7" Kindle Fire HD. Retail value of about $180. I've never won a grand prize before.

We're thinking of returning the Kindle, and using that toward the purchase of a refurbished iPad mini (full Apple warranty). We got an iPad as a gift last Christmas, so we already have several apps that we've purchased for it. It would cost an additional $80 for the iPad mini.

The conference lunch was gluten free/casein free. I'll just say that the lunch did not agree with my digestive system, and leave it at that.

1 Responses to “We attended a conference”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    Those type of conferences can be great sources of information or at least networking with people in your similar situation. Congrats on your winnings!!

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