The magic generally happens right away, the minute their shoes sink into the white sand. A startling-but-true fact, said program director Amity Wood, is that almost 70 percent of the middle school children who participate in Camp SEA Lab each year are seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time. The program operates through CSU Monterey Bay in close partnership with Monterey Bay-area science institutions. – Monterey Herald, May 5, 2011