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In the newly announced 2021 program, Recharge, campers will design a morphing road rally vehicle, reverse engineer a wireless microphone, build a rubber duck launching device and construct their own solar-powered cricket!

For 30 years, Camp Invention® has been guiding children to be confident and persistent, and to use creative problem solving to overcome obstacles. In the unprecedented times we’re all experiencing, these lessons are even more valuable.

Camp Invention® builds confidence and problem-solving skills in young innovators through hands-on, fun activities. In the newly announced 2020 program, Elevate, campers will explore the principles of flight, design their own sports facilities and protect ecosystems. And at the end of the program, each camper will bring home a robot!

Motherhood Moment blogger reports back on her sixth- and eighth-grade children's experience with our new STEM kits.

"The kits have literally everything needed - they even come with "basic" materials like scissors and tape, so there's very little prep work for the parents."

Growing up, Mairead Thomas was always a hands-on learner who excelled in math and science. When her mother enrolled her in a program called Camp Invention, it piqued her early interest in engineering.

Mary Thompson, a gifted teacher at Ruth Hill Elementary School, expanded her educational base this summer by teaching students across the nation as a National Inventors Hall of Fame Camp Invention Connect national teacher.

Shelley Smith’s third and fourth grade students logged in to their final Google Meet meeting of Camp Invention. Their robots were nearby. When Smith gave the signal, the students turned on their robots so they played music, flashed lights, and spun around.

Robots, sports complexes and water purification systems came to life in the hands of creative campers this week at Bethlehem Lutheran School’s Camp Invention, a nonprofit summer enrichment program for youth.

This program is for any student and any student can learn from it.

Like many parents, I’ve got a number of concerns bouncing around my head these days. One of the big ones is whether my kids will actually go back to school at all this year – and what that could mean for them academically.

Camp Invention builds confidence and problem-solving skills in young innovators through hands-on, fun activities.

Collaboration, sharing ideas and problem-solving were front and center, along with fun, as kids programmed DIY robots, created inventions for a deep sea mystery, and more at this year’s Camp Invention, which was held at the Fuller Meadow School.