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<v SPEAKER> Moving DO-IT
Scholars online.

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<v SHERYL BURGSTAHLER> Hello.

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I'm Sheryl Burgstahler.

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I direct the DO-IT
Center at the University

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of Washington -- Disabilities,
Opportunities, Internetworking

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and Technology.

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And part of that program,
we have the DO-IT Scholars

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program, which is
for teenagers later

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in high school that are
working to transition

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to college and on to careers.

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<v SCOTT BELLMAN> My
name is Scott Bellman.

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I'm the program manager
at the DO-IT Center.

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Our Scholars program
offers a variety

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of college
preparation activities

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throughout the school year.

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The most exciting time being
during our summer camp, which

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we call DO-IT Summer Study.

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That's where students visit
campus to live in dorms,

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and learn how to navigate the
campus and eat in cafeterias,

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and take college
classes as they learn

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about how to get ready for
school after high school.

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<v NAOMI> My name is Naomi.

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I've been a DO-IT
Scholar since 2016.

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And it's been a
really fun journey,

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full of great
opportunities from DO-IT

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and connecting with DO-IT
throughout the years.

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<v FINN> My name is Finn.

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When we did DO-IT
in person, there

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was a focus on disability
advocacy and also on STEM, STEM

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things, like we had
daily workshops.

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We would go to
the facility where

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they monitor seismic activity.

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That like the STEM element.

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And then, we would also have
the disability element where

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we would learn, OK, here's
how to get accommodations

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at college.

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<v ALEXIS> My name is Alexis, and
I was a DO-IT 2019 Scholar.

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While being there
physically I was

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able to learn the ropes of
how a college functions,

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traveling all over the campus,
eating at the different places,

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sitting through
several hours of class,

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and I also learned to
advocate for myself.

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A while ago, I had to
do a meeting with, well,

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I arranged a meeting with the
disability services at DigiPen.

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I was able to get
through it myself.

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<v SHERYL BURGSTAHLER> So when 2020
hit us all with the pandemic,

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we were stunned, like
the rest of the world.

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But we thought, well, this
will last a week or two.

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And we'll have our
program, because we

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were planning a program
in 2020 to be on-site,

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like the other ones.

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But very quickly, we
realized this wasn't

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going to be over that fast.

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We had to convert
totally online.

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It was clear the
students weren't

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going to be safe in
an on-site program.

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And so we got to work.

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What I said to my
staff is, well,

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who better than this
team for going online?

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We're always about technology.

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<v TAMI TIDWELL> I'm Tami
Tidwell, a program coordinator

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with DO-IT.

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And I've worked with Summer
Study for almost two decades.

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The decision to move online,
like most youth programs,

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was something that we knew
was not going to be easy.

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<v KAYLA BROWN> My name is Kayla.

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And I am a program coordinator
at the DO-IT program.

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I'm also a past Scholar.

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I was a Scholar in 2005.

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And right now, I work
with students who

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are in our Scholars program.

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And so we use Zoom
as our primary way

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of communication
and facilitation

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of all of our programming.

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And students who felt
comfortable talking

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outloud and answering
questions, they could do that.

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Students who were more
comfortable with text,

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they would write in the chat.

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And so we were able to
accommodate different learning

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styles and communication styles.

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And in a lot of ways, it
made it more inclusive.

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And we were able to
keep people safe,

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which, of course, was our
primary concern at the time.

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<v TAMI TIDWELL> We wanted to
make sure that students still

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had some of those
interactive pieces,

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like mock interviews or
meeting with faculty.

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And what we found was those
interactions were actually

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more focused,
because students were

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in a breakout room
with the faculty

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or the mock interviewers
and could really

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focus on what they were doing.

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And they got to be
in the spotlight

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and really say what
they wanted to say.

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Whereas, in a
normal situation, we

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would have an entire
room of interviews

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happening at the same
time, which is very loud

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and distracting.

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<v FINN> It was the same deal
as the previous two years,

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but just online.

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So you'd have the
different sessions

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and instead of going
somewhere, you'd just log on,

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and your classroom
would be the Zoom room.

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I think what I enjoyed most
about the virtual program

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is in the lecture setting and
the group discussion setting,

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I felt like it was a
lot easier for people--

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for everyone to be able
to get their ideas across.

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I felt like it was a
lot easier for people

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to share ideas in that way.

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I felt like it was a lot
easier for people to--

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if they didn't
understand something

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or wanted
clarification, you could

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raise your hand,
the virtual hand,

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or you could type
something in the chat.

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I felt like the chat
was helpful in terms of,

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hey, I didn't understand
this, or what does this mean?

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Ask for clarification.

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<v NAOMI> You get
more participation

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in classes and in
activities if you

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turn on that chat feature, which
made the virtual Summer Study

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exponentially more engaging.

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<v TAMI TIDWELL> One of the
most important things

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about Summer Study, whether
it's in person or online,

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is building
community, making sure

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that students with disabilities
that are headed to college

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feel like they
belong, feel like they

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have other people
like them out there.

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And that is definitely something
we still saw happening online.

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We see that students find out
more about disability history.

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They find out more
about their roots.

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They find out more about
this entire community

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around the world of people who
have experiences like they do.

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<v MERRITT> Hi.

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My name is Merritt.

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I'm a 19-year-old
autistic student

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who is a Scholar at DO-IT.

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In the virtual program,
we did share videos

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about our disabilities and
how important it is to us.

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It was interesting to hear
about how many of my friends

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have persevered through their
lives with a disability.

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<v SCOTT BELLMAN> We had
to get pretty creative.

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We included activities, such as
game nights, and movie nights,

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and opportunities for students
to talk about their hobbies

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and pets and share a meal,
so that we could still

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have that sense of community.

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<v ANDREA MANO> My
name is Andrea Mano,

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and I'm an assistive
technologist

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with the DO-IT program.

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We wanted to build a community,
even before Summer Study.

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We had the Scholars meet with
us in small groups over Zoom

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before Summer Study.

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The groups were chosen based on
the shared assistive technology

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and what we thought the
Scholars had in common.

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Allowing the students
to attend virtually

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enabled them to experiment with
technology in their own homes.

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And if the students
wanted, they could

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have their parents involved too,
which is always really helpful

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to have another set of eyes when
you're learning something new.

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<v TAMI TIDWELL> We also
realized that there

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was an essential piece of
what we do in person that we

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couldn't let go of.

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And that was making sure we
had evening activities and fun

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things interspersed throughout.

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So during the day, we
would take museum tours,

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and go online, and visit some
museums around the country.

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And at night, we made sure
we had movie nights and game

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nights, where
students could really

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participate and get to know
each other and their senses

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of humor.

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And what we found was the
movie night was actually,

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in my opinion, more fun
online, because normally,

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people are shushing
each other if you're

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in person watching a movie.

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But we watched
movies, and they could

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talk about the
disability-related content

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that they may be
really-- didn't really

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realize was there
before, or talk

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about their favorite characters,
or talk about what they didn't

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like about a scene or what they
really loved about that movie.

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<v SHERYL BURGSTAHLER> So on pet night,

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you can bring your pet,
ideally in costume, by the way,

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and perhaps in a matching
costume to yours.

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That's not something
we would have done--

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ever do in an on-site program,
have their pets come along.

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And so that translated really
funny, funny, funny, funny

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activity.

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And as usual, the evening
activities were optional.

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So some students that were
experiencing some Zoom fatigue,

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or just needed a break, or
weren't interested in pets,

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well, they could easily plan
their whole evening without us.

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<v SOPHIA> My name is Sophia, and I
became a DO-IT Scholar in 2021.

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I was able to meet people
throughout the community.

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But mostly, I felt like
I connected with them

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more throughout the
optional evening

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activities, where
I had more time

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to engage with the community.

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I was in the--

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I think it was a talent show.

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I just showcased my origami.

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And that was just
pretty fun, because I

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got to see people's
reaction to my crafts

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that I've worked on
during the pandemic.

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<v MERRITT> It made us
feel like we were

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all one class or one family.

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It was very nice to
see so many new faces.

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I think we were able to
make plenty of friends,

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even though it wasn't in person.

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<v FINN> Well, DO-IT, I
think, was able to build

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a sense of community just
in virtue of how welcoming

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and open the program is.

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<v NAOMI> What I enjoyed
most about virtual

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was probably the fact
that it felt like DO-IT.

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So even if we're not together,
we're still together.

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And it was like coming
back home, honestly.

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I just felt like, I'm back home.

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<v SPEAKER> Lessons learned.

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<v SHERYL BURGSTAHLER> Well, we learned

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that you can pull this off.

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We've learned some
things that we

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share with others who are
in a similar situation that

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are moving an on-site program
online or maybe even starting

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an online.

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One thing that we did the
first year and continue to do

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is made our program
a little bit longer.

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And so it's going three
weeks rather than two.

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Because we wanted to
avoid Zoom fatigue,

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we hear a lot about that.

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We thought it was
important that we

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keep the screen time a
little shorter than maybe we

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would want to.

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<v ANDREA MANO> DO-IT staff was
very thoughtful about moving

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Summer Study online.

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And in being thoughtful in that
way, they had a lot of staff

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in the online sessions.

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One staff could monitor
the faces on the screen.

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One staff could
monitor the chat.

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One staff could be
monitoring email

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when a Scholar couldn't
get into the session.

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I think that's really helpful.

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And it seems like
that's a lot of people,

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but you do need a lot of
people in case something

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unexpectedly happens.

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<v KAYLA BROWN> Some
of the things that

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were particularly successful
that we hadn't thought

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about before was we were
able to engage people

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from all over the state.

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And so it wasn't
just the students

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that we were engaged with
but also their families.

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We do involve the
parents with the process

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of working with the Scholars.

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And so we felt like we
made a deep connection

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with that aspect of
the student's life.

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So we could know
what the support

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system looks like and maybe
how we could help them.

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But we also got to know the
students in a different way

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as well.

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They were in their
own environments,

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and some of our students
felt more comfortable.

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<v TAMI TIDWELL> For
other programs thinking

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about going to an online program
or even a hybrid program,

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some of the positives
are that you

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can get mentors, people who've
been through your program

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in the past.

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They can come from
wherever they are.

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So if they're away at
school or they're not

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able to get to campus
on a certain day,

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they can still be engaged.

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It engages a bigger
and wider community.

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We also had end-of-the-day team
meetings, which were essential.

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When we were in person, we can't
pull all those staff together,

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because there are staff
working with the students

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and supervising.

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But online, we were able to
stay in touch with each other

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every single day.

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<v SPEAKER> Unexpected benefits.

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<v TAMI TIDWELL> What I realize is
that the students who've only

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participated in DO-IT
Summer Study online

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have gotten a lot out
of the experience.

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I see their growth
in their IEP or 504

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meetings, during reunions
and also in the emails

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that they send us.

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They've gotten a lot.

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They've grown a lot.

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And the program has still
made a really big impact.

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<v SOPHIA> I had a
lot of flexibility,

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because I was also
balancing another summer

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program I was doing along
with the Summer Study session.

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So I met with Tami
just to talk over

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a meeting about how I can
balance those two programs.

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<v SHERYL BURGSTAHLER> If anyone asks me

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for some advice
when they're forced

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into turning an on-site
program into online

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or maybe even optionally doing
it on-- doing that transition,

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the first thing I'd
like to say is just

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from the get-go embrace and help
your staff embrace the problem

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to solve, that this is
really kind of exciting.

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It's stressful too.

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But we've shown
that it can be done.

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And you just need to do
things one step at a time.

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