Upshaw Summer Computer Camp Article on The New York Times on the Web Upshaw Summer Computer Camp Article on The New York Times on the Web. Computer Camp for ten visually impaired students from Michigan took place the last week of June at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. The camp is a joint effort coordinated by the Upshaw Institute for the Blind, the Visually Impaired Center in Flint, and the Blind Rehabilitation Department at Western Michigan University. This is the third year in which the camp was offered, and every year the staff is greeted by tremendous enthusiasm from the participants. During the one week camp, students live on campus, prepare some of their own meals, take part in field trips, and spend three hours daily in a computer lab specially adapted for students who require speech output and large print displays.
Students focus on learning to do word processing and on using the Internet.
They have the opportunity to send e-mail and participate in the development of a camp newsletter. At the end of the week, their parents come to learn what they have learned. In the fall, a computer club will take up where the computer class left off. The following article appeared in the New York Times on the Web on July 7th. Congratulations to Lila Cabbil and her entire support staff for their efforts to offer programming to stimulate and encourage young people.