Camp Vision Mentors Build Self-Esteem, Make Learning Fun
Newsline, Keene State College
August 23, 2007

Camp Vision, Keene's first summer camp for children with learning disabilities (LD) and/or attention deficit disorder (ADD), was in session the week of August 13 to 17.

Camp Vision is the brain child of Marcus Soutra and Amber Bergeron, who worked closely with Bob Baker and Heather Jasmin in Continuing Education, the national nonprofit mentoring group Project Eye-to-Eye, Monadnock Center for Successful Transitions (MCST), and Steve Bigaj (Education) to bring the innovative program to campus.

The program improves campers' self-esteem through a mentoring relationship with counselors who also have LD or ADD. Art activities, independent-learning experiments, and community-building games help campers develop self-advocacy skills that are imperative to success both in and out of the classroom. Five children from Keene and surrounding communities researched and created projects on topics, including stop animation, medicinal plants, how cows make milk, and comic strips.

When asked to describe his experience, one camper exclaimed: I learned that learning can be fun.

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