Virtual Summer Camp for High School Students with Disabilities - An Experience Report
Wei Wang, Kathy B. Ewoldt, Mimi Xie, Alberto M. Mestas‐Nuñez, Sean Soderman, Jeffrey Wang · 2023
In the past years, the authors held computer programming and machine learning summer camp for high-school students with disabilities. Due to the pandemic, the summer camp was offered virtually in 2020 and 2021. This paper reports our experience of teaching this summer camp. The main goal of the summer camp was to let students with disabilities get first-hand experience of working in STEM fields to encourage them to pursue STEM careers. The curriculum was primarily composed of hands-on activities for Python programming and Computer Vision. Besides lectures and programming tasks, there were also guest speakers and an external panel to offer their personal experiences of working in STEM fields.