Monitoring long term effects of an outreach program for girls

One major challenge to creating a successful outreach program is the achievement of long-term effects. These effects can be difficult to measure, but are crucial to improvement of the program and successful fundraising. A study was performed for WPI Camp REACH, a two-week residential program to interest 7th grade girls in engineering, which examined interest in engineering and self-reporting of abilities in a variety of skills. A control group was used to comparatively measure the effects.