Unfortunately, after taking a look at the rules and guidelines on Kickstarter, it doesn't seem like the campaign itself would be prohibited. The policies & terms that exist allow for a project like this. Similar projects exist on Kickstarter as well. She has broken the rule about Twitter spamming, but even that guideline only states that doing so "puts the project in jeopardy of being suspended," not that it's absolute. They must've ruled that her spamming wasn't bad enough, or perhaps she stopped once asked.
So in Kickstarter's opinion, they believe they are upholding the policies, as this campaign doesn't clearly break any of them aside from Twitter spamming, which is probably why the project is still up and hasn't been taken down. While the policies have been upheld, it's still a questionable campaign overall. Seems like Kickstarter is leaving it in the hands of the people who donate to decide if it's too questionable for them or not.
As I said, I'm mostly done with this, so I don't wish to get into a prolonged debate. Instead I'll just state why I believe this is against the terms of service, although I do understand how some may not agree with me.
Despite the title of the project the funding is purely to pay for an education. The camp is there to teach her how to use the basics of RPG Maker better and the outcome will be the game. The argument people have had here, such as the one mod that doesn't see this as the same as paying for someone's long-term college tuition, is that it's just a week-long camp. Regardless, tuition doesn't necessarily mean a college course, despite it commonly used in that way, and tuition really just means paying for an education. This camp requires payment for the education. That's a tuition, albeit on a smaller scale.
Secondly, I personally am bothered about the mother using this as a leverage to push her "Keep Up!" campaign because I honestly see this as being half about that within the Kickstarter project. In absolutely no way am I against educating women and getting them into more science and technology fields. I've even recently looked into how to start volunteering to teach programming to underprivileged kids locally and would urge a more equal amount of both genders. Regardless to that I still don't agree with this campaign as being a secondary goal of this Kickstarter campaign and in the terms of service they also don't allow "awareness campaigns."
I completely understand how the second thing is tougher to argue and also looks bad to argue against it. It makes me or others that would argue on that angle sound like we're against the goal itself. I'm simply against Kickstarter not following their own terms as convenient, as I personally see it, which is why I won't be supporting projects through Kickstarter following this. I've supported five or six already but now I'll use Kickstarter as a showroom and send money through Paypal when available.
Things aren't black and white so I see how some people don't think this is abusing Kickstarter. I also don't think the facts outside of this particular Kickstarter should have really been the biggest issue here. My first reply on one of the early pages in this thread even says that we should ignore the millionaire claim and instead focus on the issues against the terms of service themselves. Morally I can't agree with everything Ms. Wilson has done and I think she's smarter than she lets on about quite a bit (Harvard graduate, part of a start-up that sold to Kinko's for $100m) but this is not the main issue in my view.
There's other avenues she could have used to aim to reach her goal. Indiegogo obviously is less restricted on what projects can go up as I understand it and if this exact same thing was up there I wouldn't be as opposed. I might have just found it silly that she's wanting money for something she could pay for herself but I also wouldn't be actively against it as I am here. Likely her failures on Indiegogo is what lead her to move to the more popular Kickstarter? I don't honestly know. And in the end it doesn't really matter at this point.
Anyhow, that's pretty much all I have left to say.