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88. Proficiency in Multiple Languages: It's Not an Option in America Today, Whether We Like It or Not! - Dale Gamache
Children face challenges in the 2010s if monolingual. A veteran homeschool dad and Spanish professor, Dale will present how to prepare our families to succeed in our ever-changing, multicultural, multilingual nation. 
Exhibit: La Clase Divertida

89. Ministering to the Heart of a Child - Rick Andreassen
“Mr. Rick” will encourage, inspire and equip parents to keep up the great work in the Lord and always see the great potential in each of their children, while giving parents time-tested techniques of positive discipline and self-esteem building. 
Exhibit: Christian Homeschool Athletic Association

90. Wisdom and Your Wealth (Balancing the Sword — Vendor Workshop)
Is there a correlation between our income and wisdom? Are you lacking money due to WDD (Wisdom Deficit Disorder)? Come learn the value of wisdom as it pertains to training your sons as strong providers and your daughters as skillful stewards.

91. National Driver Education Training Institute (Vendor Workshop)
Help for The Teenager Who Wants to Drive will guide you from the parking lot to the highways, from obtaining a permit to achieving a driver license safely and responsibly. Several short videos will make you laugh while showing the significance of completing this homestudy program correctly.

92. Is an Art and Design College Right for You? 
(Savannah College of Art + Design—Vendor Workshop)
Art and design careers demand more than steady hands or an eye for color. The name of the game is creativity — where form and function combine to change the world. Get the latest information about art careers.

93. Why Art Is Essential to Your Child's Education
(Arts Attack — Vendor Workshop)
This presentation will review the important role art plays in developing right-brain skills and in
enabling children to develop their full potential. It will also review the Atelier art program and discuss essential elements of a successful program while viewing children's artwork.

94. Financial Management Presentation (YoungBiz Florida — Vendor Workshop)
YoungBiz is known as a world leader in business, entrepreneurship and financial literacy education for children, teenagers and young adults. This presentation will discuss YoungBiz and how it can provide you with the tools to teach your children the vital skills of business, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. 

95. Lap Books Across the Curriculum (Tobin’s Lab — Vendor Workshop)
This will be a hands-on class! Scissors, glue and paper will be provided — learn to help students make timeless teaching aids that integrate reading and writing, math and science, map and globe skills, and critical thinking. Stimulate creativity while putting responsibility on the student.

96. Seasons of a Mother’s Heart: Living With Grace Through the Seasons of Motherhood - Sally Clarkson
The life of a homeschooling mother can be a whirlwind of changing seasons. Sally has lived through 24 years of seasons and knows the reality of grace. Feel at home with her stories, insights and biblical inspiration.
Exhibit: Whole Heart Ministries

97. Teaching Your Children the Constitution - Mike Farris
Mike will discuss the importance of knowing the content and purpose of the founding documents of our country, and how this can affect our interpretation of issues today.
Exhibit: Home School Legal Defense Association

98. The Most Important Reason to Go to College — and to Be Wary in the Process - Adam Andrews
American higher education has become unfriendly for Christians and other conservatives. Many parents wonder whether to consider sending their students to college at all. Adam offers invaluable advice on this issue.
Exhibit: The Center for Literary Education

99. Classical Composers for Dummies: Music History for the Musically Challenged -Maggie Hogan
This fast, fun, integrated approach will be for those who never learned this stuff. Knowing something about classical music is important for a well-rounded education, but it had better be interesting or the kids will snooze!
Exhibit: Bright Ideas Press

100. The Sarcastic Homeschooler— Duh! 
(SchoolHouse Publishing — Vendor Workshop)
Ohhh, it's so frustrating! Your students make the same obvious, stupid mistakes over and over, and it's not just their schoolwork —it's their overall attitude toward school, chores and family. You'll be laughing and crying at the same time at this humorous, hardhitting workshop.

101. How to Raise a Patriotic Student: Ideas from Easy Reasoning, a Curriculum That Teaches Patriotism Through the Subjects (Easy Reasoning — Vendor Workshop)
Since there is no truth without God, learning history and the other subjects from a biblical worldview is crucial. Learn to lay the foundation as early as kindergarten.

102. BYU Independent Study (Vendor Workshop)
BYU Independent Study offers over 450 high-school and university dist ance-learning courses that help students make up credit, graduate on time, enhance their curriculum or earn university credit. Come learn more about the courses and bring your questions to pose to the visiting representative.

103. The GOAT Progam (Vendor Workshop)
The program teaches three key life skills to kids ages 10-18: goal setting, problem solving and time management. It also improves selfesteem and instills higher self-confidence. This Disneyesque approach will be brought to life by two award-winning speakers who will appeal to the kid in all of us.

104. Prevent Leadership Burnout: Managing Membership on the Web
(Homeschool-Life.com — Vendor Workshop)
Volunteer leaders come together to mold a homeschool group, but after the groundwork has been laid, an entirely new team of leaders may take the group to the next level. Learn how to develop new volunteer families for leadership.

105. The Apprentice Doctor (Vendor Workshop)
Student CD-ROM kits, with real medical equipment and hands-on projects, were created to allow students the opportunity of experiencing the same fulfillment and excitement as medical professionals, long before ever setting foot in a medical college. Dramatically improve your chances of pursuing a successful career in medicine!

106. Succeessfully Implementing Sexual Purity for the Family - Phil Downer (Fathers and Sons only) This workshop will focus on practical, biblical steps to take to overcome the destruction of sexual morality in the family and Christian community. It will offer positive ways for children to walk in righteousness, which will build confidence, strength and leadership. 
Exhibit: Discipleship Network of America

107. A Girl's High Calling - Julie Hiramine (Moms & Daughters age 12 and up)
The intricacies of raising girls in this generation are never-ending. Challenges abound with girls:
Emotions, modesty, battles between sisters and girlfriends, and relating to the opposite sex. Join
Julie as she gives practical wisdom and advice on how to raise a generation of godly daughters.
Exhibit: Generations of Virtue

108. Let's Be R.E.A.L. - Dari Mullins
Are you intimidated by the achievements of other homeschoolers — afraid your children will never get the opportunities of other "overachievers" you know or read about? Come examine what is most important to remember when we start comparing ourselves and our children to everyone else.
Exhibit: American Family Heritage Foundation

109. Instant Improvement in Writing - Andrew Pudewa
Whether you enjoy writing or not, this concrete method of teaching and learning stylistic variety will seem almost like magic. Useful at the elementary level and equally useful for the university student, this approach to sentence-pattern mastery is powerful!
Exhibit: Institute for Excellence in Writing

110. The Scaredy Cat Reading System & Scribble 2 Scribe 
(Teaching 4 Mastery — Vendor Workshop)
Scaredy Cat teaches reading the way a child learns. Games and activities make reading come alive. Children's Theater creates a world where vowels are brave or scared. Teaching techniques help a child learn to read at 30 words per minute.

111. Hands-On-Science Curriculum 
(Creation Studies Institute / Masterbooks — Vendor Workshop)
Come hear how to make science exciting for the whole family. Tom DeRosa is leading the production of dynamic, hands-on science curriculum soon to be published for the homeschool community and Christian schools. There will be free handouts introducing the curriculum while supply lasts.

112. Math-U-See (Vendor Workshop)
This workshop will cover manipulative methods to teach math from kindergarten through high school. Topics will cover fractions, problem solving, algebra and more. Come see how math can be fun.

113. Cornerstone Curriculum Project (Vendor Workshop)
China will undoubtedly be the most significant country of the 21st century! David Quine will unfold how to begin children on a lifetime understanding of the biblical worldview, and stir their hearts with a love for God and for the millions who do not yet know Him. 

114. Lamplighter: Building Character One Story at a Time 
(Lamplighter Publishing — Vendor Workshop)
The Bible states that character and virtue are prerequisites to knowledge. Why, then, are we placing so much attention on academia and so little on character development? Learn how Lamplighter’s collection of rare stories forms a bond between the story and the reader.

115. I Think That My Child Might Be Dyslexic: Does It Matter? 
(AVKO Educational Research Foundation — Vendor Workshop)
Confirm your inner knowledge: Supportive families make all the difference for your child's selfesteem as a learner. Watch Don McCabe give a demonstration with a student from the audience to show how hidden logic is easily taught.

116. Identifying If Your Child Has a Learning Glitch - Dianne Craft
A child may be a reluctant learner for several reasons: maturity, an information processing block,
attention/focusing issues or a right-brain curriculum. This session will help you find out why your smart child has to work hard to learn.
Exhibit: Dianne Craft

117. The Power of Companionship in Delight-Directed Study - Gregg Harris
The greatest works of scholarship, literature, art, music, science or civic leadership have been accomplished by small groups of fellow enthusiasts devoted to a shared interest. A few such friends (and they have often been siblings) can change the course of history. 
Exhibit: Noble Institute for Leadership Development

HOW TO FIND GUEST SPEAKERS AFTER THEIR LECTURES
Many lecturers are also exhibitors at our Convention. When that is so, we publish the name of the exhibit at the end of the lecture description. Also, speaker tables are located outside the Sebastian and Panzacola ballrooms. You may see lecturers strolling around the convention center. Feel free to approach them with your questions and concerns. We have invited them because of their expertise as well as their heart for homeschoolers. They are sure to encourage you.

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