Mentoring: Helping Youth Make a Difference in STEM by Angelia Reid-Griffin

“…In this article, I present how a college-based summer camp, designed to engage youth in increasing interests in STEM, Healthcare, and Teacher education, by helping youth build self-confidence and career interests through a Vertical Mentoring model. …”
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Valorizing intangible cultural heritage through community-based tourism in Lăpuș Land, Transylvania by F. NECHITA, A. N. CANDREA, A. CSISZÉR, H. TANAKA

“…Aiming to identify tourists’ experience, a research was conducted among Japanese visitors who discovered the intangible cultural heritage of the studied area during an academic summer camp.…”
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Sexual Abuse Among Adolescents by Udigwe IB, Ofiaeli OC, Ebenebe JC, Nri-Ezedi AC, Ofora VC, Nwaneli EI

“…Methods: A self-administered pretested questionnaire was used to collect data from children aged 10 to 19 years at an adolescent summer camp. Results: Two hundred and seventy-six adolescents participated in this research out of which 41.3% had correct knowledge of sexual abuse, and 12.0% claimed they had been sexually abused. …”
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The Factors Contributing toward the Effectiveness of Afterschool Program Management in Taiwan by Enricho Fiktorando Purba, Sheng Yao Cheng, Nasib Tua Lumban Gaol

“…In addition, the effectiveness of the afterschool program was supported by five main activities (i.e., remedial teaching, homework assistance, English summer camp, special event and field trips) to improve the students’ knowledge and experience. …”
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Secondary school students’ competencies and motivation to engage in mathematical modelling tasks in a virtual learning environment by Orit Cohen-Nissan, Zehavit Kohen

“…Participants were 770 ninth graders who took part in a 5-day online summer camp, designed as a VLE, aiming at introducing them to mathematics within the tech industry. …”
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Physical Activity Component Should be Included when Designing National Child-Obesity Program: The Rapid Review of Multi-Component Child Obesity Intervention Programs by Don Hyung Lee

“…Interventions contained physical activity & diet/nutrition or physical activity & psychological coaching, and intervention implemented in school, healthcare facility, summer camp, and after-school class were shown effective. …”
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Metaphors of early childhood education student teachers at the beginning of the university studies by Anneli Niikko

“…ECEC centre was emphasized as a summer camp. The students of 2013 and 2017 emphasized the teacher as a lighthouse and a mainstay of flowers. …”
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Who Needs Goals? A Case Study of a Goal-Free Evaluation by Brandon W. Youker, Alayna Zielinski, Ouen Hunter, Nicholas Bayer

“…Setting: The evaluand was a day long training of summer camp counselors on occupational therapy (OT) related skills such as feeding, dressing, and bathing.     …”
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Camp Organizational Support for Creativity Among New And Returning Camp Counselors by Myles L. Lynch, Cindy L. Hartman, Nate E. Trauntvein, Cari A. E. Moorhead

“…Satisfied employees, who are supported in their creativity, have increased performance, motivation, and commitment. Residential summer camp is a demanding 24-hour job in which camp counselors use creativity on a regular basis via lesson planning, teaching activities, resolving conflict, and living within close proximity to coworkers. …”
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Coping skills in children with epilepsy - evaluation of cognitive behavioral therapy intervention by Maja Batista, Antonela Meštrović, Ana Marija Vekić, Maša Malenica, Monika Kukuruzović, Ivan Begovac

“…Seventeen children and adolescents aged 9-17 diagnosed with epilepsy for at least one year, with at least average intelligence and no history of serious mental illness completed the CBT intervention during summer camp, providing data on the efficiency of and satisfaction with CBT intervention. …”
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Empowering young people—the impact of camp experiences on personal resources, well-being, and community building by Esther Kirchhoff, Roger Keller, Barbara Blanc

“…SCOUT, the ‘Study on Competence development in OUT-of-school settings’, investigated whether participation in a summer camp enhanced adolescents’ personal resources, well-being, and readiness to contribute to the community.MethodsThe research took place during the Swiss National Jamboree of the Swiss Guide and Scout Movement, a two-week event in the summer of 2022, with a paper-pencil pretest (beginning of the camp – T1) and posttest (end of the camp – T2) survey (N = 607, aged 14–17). …”
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Does philosophy kill culture? by Jason Chen, Susan T Gardner

“…Given that one of the major goals of the practice of Philosophy for Children (P4C) is the development of critical thinking skills (Sharp 1987/2018, pp. 4 6), an urgent question that emerged for one of the authors, who is of Chinese Heritage and a novice practitioner at a P4C summer camp (thinkingplayground.org), was whether this emphasis on critical thinking might make this practice incompatible with the fabric of Chinese culture. …”
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Digital re-enchantment: tribal belonging, new age science and the search for happiness in a digital detoxing community by Sutton, T

“…This study investigates Camp Grounded’s digital detox and summer camp for adults as an example of the “social fact” of anti-tech narratives, and as an opportunity to better understand how we live with technology today.…”

“The Greatest Experience Ever”: Benefits of Participation in High-Adventure Activities for Youth by Miriam R. Linver, Jennifer Brown Urban, Elaine Les, Xiaofang Xue, Alexis Nager

“…Using a concurrent embedded mixed-methods design, we found that participation in high-adventure activities was associated with higher mean levels of youth communication, citizenship, sense of purpose, and leadership when compared with youths who only participated in summer camp programs or those who did neither high-adventure nor camp programs. …”
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How Elite Politicization of Terror Impacts Sympathies for Partisans: Radical Right versus Social Democrats by Lars Erik Berntzen

“…It zooms in on the conflict between the Norwegian Progress Party and the Labour Party that revolves around the trauma of the 22 July 2011 terror attacks, in which a former Progress Party member committed two devastating attacks against the Labour government and Labour Youth summer camp. This is studied using a survey experimental approach, relying on panel data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel. …”
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Development of an observational exposure human biomonitoring study to assess Canadian children's DEET exposure during protective use. by Jennifer C Gibson, Leonora Marro, Michael M Borghese, Danielle Brandow, Lauren Remedios, Mandy Fisher, Morie Malowany, Katarzyna Kieliszkiewicz, Anna O Lukina, Kim Irwin

“…We conducted a 24-hour observational exposure and human biomonitoring study designed to estimate use of and exposure to DEET-based insect repellents by Canadian children in an overnight summer camp setting. Here, we present our study design and methodology. …”
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Nomogram model for the risk of insulin resistance in obese children and adolescents based on anthropomorphology and lipid derived indicators by Cao You-xiang, Zhu Lin

“…Methods A total of 404 eligible obese children and adolescents aged 10–17 years were recruited for this study from a summer camp between 2019 and 2021. The risk factors were screened using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO)-logistic regression model, and a nomogram model was developed. …”
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Strategies of handling difficult situations by young people on the example of the research among young judo athletes by Patrycja Janowska, Małgorzata Pujszo, Robert Stępniak

“…There were 38 young judo athletes, aged from 9 to 17 years old, who took part in the research during their summer camp. There were 24 boys and 14 girls who completed the questionnaire ‘My strategies of handling difficult situations’ published in ‘Niezbędnik Dobrego Nauczyciela’ edited by prof. dr hab. …”
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Development of an observational exposure human biomonitoring study to assess Canadian children’s DEET exposure during protective use by Jennifer C. Gibson, Leonora Marro, Michael M. Borghese, Danielle Brandow, Lauren Remedios, Mandy Fisher, Morie Malowany, Katarzyna Kieliszkiewicz, Anna O. Lukina, Kim Irwin

“…We conducted a 24-hour observational exposure and human biomonitoring study designed to estimate use of and exposure to DEET-based insect repellents by Canadian children in an overnight summer camp setting. Here, we present our study design and methodology. …”
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Exploring an Existing Weight Management App for Use With Adolescents and Young Adults With Spina Bifida: Usability Study by Stiles-Shields, Colleen, Garcia, Brittney, Villota, Kimberly, Wartman, Elicia, Winning, Adrien M, Holmbeck, Grayson N

“…MethodsOverall, 28 AYA-SBs attending a Young Men’s Christian Association–based summer camp completed 4 structured usability tasks using a weight management app designed for the general public called My Diet Coach (Bending Spoons). …”
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