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about topics including careers, educational experiences, technology, giving advice
and answering questions. The camp students were broken up into 2 groups during
these mentor sessions. This way the students who were Deaf could interact with
the Deaf mentor and students who were blind could interact with a mentor who
was blind. Most of the mentors were not able to travel to the rural camp and
attended the mentor session virtually through Zoom. Figure 2 shows one of the
mentors on a laptop screen zooming with a group of students and one of the camp
instructors. The virtual visit was not as ideal as in-person due to some of the
broadband challenges of rural Ohio, however, it provided flexibility for the
mentors especially those who had transportation challenges.
Figure 2
Note. Figure shows campers and one of the camp instructors gathered around the
laptop zooming with a mentor.
