CHAT Celebration

chat celebration: chat camp participants appear with their camp counselors on the celebration stage
CHAT Celebration: campers with their camp counselors on stage at the celebration

CHAT’s Celebration went far beyond most people’s expectations! There was fun, smiles, excitement and a little tears, as is normal went an event like this comes to an end Before all the action began, the campers did some last minute practice to introduce their councilors and got to watch the video they made at YNN the day before. Graham was so excited that he had a hard time using his machine, but he did great when he got on stage. The celebration started with the entire CHAT Team coming onto the stage in their bright orange CHAT t-shirts. Once the stage was a cheering sea of oranges, the stars of the show – Leo, Matt, Addi, Makenna and Graham – rolled on a red carpet and through lighted balloon arches onto the stage. After lunch, the Campers returned to the stage to receive trophies and other fantastic gifts from CHAT. Then the lights went down and the campers teamed up to simultaneously light up a huge brightly colored CHAT sign and launch CHAT Central, a fully accessible website that has a Sports Club, Comedy Club, Book Club, switch-operated games and resources for parent. Then Barb Tresness, CHAT’s founder was surprised by a special handmade plate with the CHAT logo on it crafted Wendy Blanck, BBI Chairman Peter Blanck’s wife. But Barb had her own surprise in store. She called up the core members of the CHAT Team, recognizing all their work by giving each one a framed montage of pictures taking during CHAT Camp. It’s safe to say that the CHAT Celebration was a stupendous success! It was a terrific ending to a terrific CHAT Camp week! What will CHAT come up with next?

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