FARMINGTON – Noah Carver, a seventh-grade student of Beals Island, talked with the sixth graders at Mt. Blue Middle School and to the entire student body at Cascade Brook School recently.
The focus of his presentation was on setting, adjusting and reaching goals and the importance of perseverance. Carver presented last year and was invited back because of the the overwhelming positive response from students and teachers.
He was enthusiastically greeted by Sarah Carlson’s fourth-grade students, had lunch with the Civil Rights Team, and then delivered his message in two different assemblies in the afternoon.
Teachers and students alike were in awe of his positive approach to living life to the fullest despite what others might perceive as a disability. Carver, born blind due a rare congenital disorder called Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis, does not consider being blind a disability, but simply a difference.
As he told students, “No matter how old you are, where you’re from, or what you’ve been born with, or what bad things might happen today or tomorrow, that doesn’t define or control you, but rather it’s how you value yourself. It’s how you set your goals, adjust them, reach them.”
