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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Cristinel Ababei; Anca M. Miron

format of our summer camp, which we project would helpeven more our main goal, is to organize follow-up summer camps (in the following year)with the same participants. Exposing girls repeatedly to engineering concepts will providethe necessary reinforcement of the main topics and will foster the desire to pursueengineering careers. In addition, it is also desirable to maintain a database of participantsand their contact info (with parental consent) to keep track of their careers later in theirlives. Such data would present concrete statistics about how many participants willeventually pursue careers in engineering.To measure the improvement in perceived self-efficacy, we plan to update the exitquestionnaire with an additional question, “I

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Naima Kaabouch; Deborah L. Worley; Jeremiah Neubert; Mohammad Khavanin

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