Nicholas Zapotocky is back home after participating in a national career exploration camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Zapotocky, a senior at Parkland High School, recently attended Explore Your Future, a six-day career exploration camp at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on the RIT campus in Rochester, N.Y.

Campers got a taste of possible careers in computer art design, lab science technology, business, computing and engineering.

New this year was a course involving health-care careers.

Taught by a deaf physician, the students used computers to look up the doctor's "symptoms" and attempted to diagnose his ailment.

The health care class was added after a national Task Force on Health Care Careers for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community released a report calling for barriers preventing more deaf and hard-of-hearing students from entering health care careers.

More than 200 students from as far away as Hawaii participated.

To see a video about the camp, go to youtube.com/watch.