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3-6 were termed "juniors" and the remaining 7 were termed "senior" students
and planned to enroll in grades 7-12 during the following school year.
Following acceptance into the camp, participants and their families
were offered the opportunity to participate in this research. In compliance with
guidelines put forth by the Institutional Review Board located at a major
Midwestern university in the United States, only those participants who had
parental permission, or for those over 18 years of age, self- permission were
included in the data.
The camp was a family affair as junior students were accompanied to
the consumer organization headquarters by at least one parent. While the
students participated in the STEM camp, their parents engaged in a
weeklong seminar focused on maximizing educational resources and life skill
strategies for their child. Since participants came from all over the USA, the
participants, adult and child, stayed at the consumer organization's
conference center.
In addition to the student participants, there were four adult mentors for
the students. Each of the adults was visually impaired and also conversant
with either science or engineering. One mentor was a retired professor of
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