We do a lot of different measuring and evaluation, both at a local level and on a national scale. Within the programs our members are offering, they evaluate their camp programs, for example, on an ongoing basis. It's a formative type of evaluation. They're constantly asking questions about what activities are working and what activities aren't, what kinds of learning outcomes are being impacted and which aren't. That's an ongoing evaluation.
We've also done formal research. We had a researcher at the University of Ottawa do a three-year formal impact evaluation of our programs, pre-attendance and post-attendance, that looked specifically at those intrinsic values of self-confidence, interest in science and technology, and knowledge of those areas, all with a view to gauging what future behaviour would be. The results were significantly positive pre-attendance to post-attendance.
Interestingly, the girls who came into the programs with lower levels of self-reported confidence had the most significant increase over the course of the program.