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On Thursday, junior Maddie Beitel will be speaking to students on overcoming disabilities. Beitel was asked to be the first “inspire” speaker as a follow-up to the Rachel’s Challenge event held earlier in the semester.
“Whenever the guy from Rachel’s challenge came and talked to us I thought it was really cool,” junior Maddie Beitel said. “Then, when we made the hands I wrote, ‘If you can’t tell this hand belongs to Maddie’, just trying to make a joke, but Mrs. Walker saw it and started talking to me about speaking.”
Beitel has a condition called ectodermal dysplasia which means she was born with two fingers on each hand and two toes on each foot. Beitel spoke to teachers at a faculty “Lunch and Learn” on Tuesday as a precursor to Thursday’s event.
“[Thursday] I’ll be talking about how to overcome disabilities, problems, and differences,” Beitel said.
DianeNicholson • Mar 2, 2016 at 10:19 am
You are an inspiration. I do wish I could be in your audience at the event. Maybe it can be recorded. Keep blessing others with your strength and purpose.
Diane