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EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE
Explore Your Future (EYF) is a week-long career
exploration and evaluation program conducted at
NTID each summer for deaf and hard-of-hearing
students about to enter their junior or senior year of
high school. It is one of the institute’s most
successful outreach programs. The program
provides high school students with the opportunity
to learn about themselves and their educational
and life/career choices. It is based on the idea that
people have differing interests in six areas:
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
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Enterprising and Conventional (RIASEC). Students
participate in hands-on career exploration classes
and personal awareness instruction. A myriad of
social activities and dorm living opportunities give
the students a taste of college life. A total of 4,756
students have participated in EYF over the past 25
years. Sixty-two percent of the summer 2008
participants subsequently enrolled at NTID in fall
2008. Two sessions were offered in summer 2009.
This year’s participants came from 33 states and
one foreign country.
FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009
Number of Participants 194 183 253 235 196
Percentage of Minorities 24% 20% 15% 29% 30%*
Percentage Enrolling at NTID 52% 44% 59% 62% N/A**
* 20% of students enrolled in EYF 2009 did not indicate their ethnicity on the registration form.
** Students from EYF 2009 currently are in the process of applying to NTID.