Responding to COVID-19: Insights into Making Summer Camps Virtual

Warren, Amy Reynolds; Harp, Kaitlyn; Aissa, Narmine Ben; Specking, Eric

doi:10.18260/1-2-1148.1153-38322

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“… 10 The University of Arkansas College of Engineering also shipped relevant materials to underrepresented minority students for a Virtual Summer camp which was found to be just as effective as in-person camps. 11 The advantage of an online camp is that there are few barriers to implementation. With most children having experience with online schooling there were few difficulties maneuvering the Zoom™ platform.…”

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Implementation of Virtual Fontan Heart Camps During a Pandemic

Tham

Harake

Lin

et al. 2023

World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg

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Background Children with a Fontan operation represent a unique form of congenital heart disease (CHD) that requires multiple cardiac surgeries and procedures with an uncertain long-term outcome. Given the rarity of the types of CHD that require this procedure, many children with a Fontan do not know any others like them. Methods With the cancelation of medically supervised heart camps due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have organized several physician-led virtual day camps for children with a Fontan operation to connect with others in their province and across Canada. The aim of this study was to describe the implementation and evaluation of these camps via the use of an anonymous online survey immediately after the event and reminders on days 2 and 4 postevent. Results Fifty-one children have participated in at least 1 of our camps. Registration data showed that 70% of participants did not know anyone else with a Fontan. Postcamp evaluations showed that 86% to 94% learned something new about their heart and 95% to 100% felt more connected to other children like them. Conclusion We have demonstrated the implementation of a virtual heart camp to expand the support network for children with a Fontan. These experiences may help to promote healthy psychosocial adjustments through inclusion and relatedness.

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Implementation of Virtual Fontan Heart Camps During a Pandemic

Tham

Harake

Lin

et al. 2023

World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg

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“…Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, online outreach programs were relatively rare, although the benefits offered by the online setting (e.g. a lower cost alternative to an in-person experience and the opportunity to engage a broader audience) have led to the development of a few online outreach programs [5]. Unsurprisingly, a more popular model for the online outreach camp involves teaching concepts related to computer programming [6][7].…”

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Design and Implementation of an Online Outreach Program for Experimental Measurements (Evaluation)

Cloutier,

Constans,

Mayhew

2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of the Creation Crates outreach program in the summer of 2020 and 2021. In the spring of 2020, most academic programsboth at the undergraduate and K-12 levelswere suddenly forced to move online. Because of health-related concerns, most in-person K-12 summer outreach programs were also cancelled. Creation Crates was developed to provide a remote alternative to the cancelled outreach programs that would still allow students to encounter engineering concepts and strengthen quantitative analytical skills. We believe the details of our program are worth sharing to provide new ideas for educators who are still teaching in an online setting or who are seeking low-cost options for course content related to experimental measurements.Creation Crates is a virtual engineering outreach program designed for rising high school juniors and seniors. The program was inspired by the forced online implementation of an undergraduate Measurement Systems course in the spring of 2020 and focuses on skills related to experimental measurements. Over the course of two weeks, participants in Creation Crates perform five different experiments, all the while layering in increasingly complex techniques related to uncertainty analysis and design of experiments. At the beginning of the program, each participant receives a kit in the mail containing the necessary materials and measurement tools for each experiment. The program includes two hours of remote, synchronous classes each weekday as well as daily asynchronous content.Feedback on the program was collected through a free response survey. Based on the comments of those who chose to participate, the reception to the program has been positive. In response to the question, "What did you enjoy about the program? What did you find valuable?" common positive features included the individual attention from instructors as well as the new and valuable information students were learning. The most common suggestion for improvement was to facilitate more student-student interaction (rather than just student-faculty interaction). Although the instructors did make an attempt to implement more student-student interaction in the second iteration of the program, it was largely unsuccessful.Although the feedback the students provided was similar in both years, the instructors observed a dip in engagement in the second iteration of Creation Crates. We believe this is largely due to lightened pandemic-related restrictions in the summer of 2021 (as compared to the summer of 2020); since students had the freedom to pursue most "normal" activities in the summer of 2021, some participants tried to treat the program as fully asynchronous, which is not how it was intended to be experienced. As a proposed remedy to this issue, we plan to condense the program into a one-week experience that instead lasts four hours a day, and we are also developing new ideas for ways to facilitate student-student interaction more successfully.

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Responding to COVID-19: Insights into Making Summer Camps Virtual

Cited by 2 publications

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Implementation of Virtual Fontan Heart Camps During a Pandemic

Implementation of Virtual Fontan Heart Camps During a Pandemic

Design and Implementation of an Online Outreach Program for Experimental Measurements (Evaluation)

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