Entertainment:
Go!Fest is all about education and fun. Check out some of the
great activities that showcase how people with disabilities are
living life without limitations, including service dog
demonstrations, performances by the Orange Grove singers, puppet
shows hosted by Kids on the Block, face painters, a huge
Touch-A-Truck section and the incredible creatures that make the
Chattanooga Zoo their home.
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Art Expo:
Go!Fest 2010 is looking for artists with disabilities to
show their art, photography, pottery or any sort of art medium
at this year's Go!Fest celebration.
Click for details
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Touch-A-Truck
Exhibit
This year’s Touch-A-Truck
Exhibit will feature many amazing opportunities for families to view
various pieces of equipment including, but certainly not limited to,
the following:
1. Chattanooga Police Department S.W.A.T. vehicles,
Police cars, armored personnel carriers, and K-9 unit.
2. Chattanooga Fire Department will have several pieces of equipment
on display including the Fire Prevention Smoke Trailer exhibit, an
antique fire truck and historic steamer from the early 1890’s,
rescue truck, and hopefully, the new fire boat.
3. Chattanooga Public Works Equipment such as dump trucks,
bulldozers, excavators, recycling truck, garbage truck, and other
pieces of earthmoving fun.
4. Hamilton County EMS will have an ambulance and their Mobile
Command Center Vehicle.
5. Chattanooga Police Department Beat the Heat program and Race
Car/Dragster.
6. The Totherow race car built especially for disabled race car
Driver, Tim Totherow.
7. Erlanger’s Life Force Helicopter landing and Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit.
8. United States Marine Corp Howitzer Cannon display and 6-ton
personnel carrier.
9. United States Army National Guard Missile Launcher and helicopter
landing.
10. Civil War Confederate and Union Army Re-enactors with Cannon and
Calvary displays.
11. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department K-9 Unit and new Mobile
Command Unit.
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Adaptive
Sports:
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Visual Experience:
Go!Fest 2010 will incorporate a visual experience into
the festivals activities. The goal is to incorporate new and
interactive visitor experiences to help add to the amazing exhibits
and activities that are already at the Chattanooga Zoo.
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Assistive
Technology:
How do you
translate your name into Braille? How do you tie your shoe
string with only one hand? How do you surf the Net without
using your hands, or your eyes? What if you needed to talk to
the doctor but cannot speak?
Assistive
Technology demonstrations at 2010 Go!Fest event will showcase
all these things as well as educate on how to listen to music if you
are deaf or read a book if you are blind.
Go!Fest 2010
will have many other technologies available that are designed to
make the lives of people more self-sufficient!
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