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Camp Invention includes activities where participants investigate the science of sports ball design and personalize their own light-up game board. The program also features projects that use the science of light to create a customized Glow Box and find inspiration from illuminating inventions and animals that glow. Additional activities involve embarking on a global operation to solve real-world water challenges, exploring water-based technology with a robotic Lab-On-Wheels, engineering a tiny house with crops, stepping into a Prototyping Studio to mold and transform unique inventions, and protecting prototypes with the power of intellectual property.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: 2026 program dates are June 15–19, with program times from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Price: Camper price is $350 and Leaders-in-Training price is $250, with a $60 discount automatically applied for a second week and payment plans available up to 8 weeks before the camp start date
Camp Invention is for children entering grades K–6, with Leaders-in-Training spots for students in grades 7–9, and LITs support campers throughout the week at in-person locations. The curriculum can vary by site, and the education team collaborates with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to create new program curricula each year that combine hands-on fun and creativity with STEM concepts, align with state and national education standards, and integrate 21st-century learning with hands-on activities. Palm Valley School is running two weeks of Camp Invention, and a limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Camp Invention is part of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which has honored the spirit of innovation and promoted inventors as role models since 1973, impacting more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation since it was founded in 1973. The organization’s mission is to inspire emerging creators and entrepreneurs through its education programs and to honor the history of innovation through its museum and Hall of Fame Inductees. It is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and works in partnership with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, along with 2,144 philanthropic partners.
The leadership and education team includes Rachelle Albrechta (Director of Program Development), Jayme Cellitioci (Senior Director of Education), Ashley Giordano (Manager of Program Management), Susie Duchon (Education Specialist), Rachel Lutes (Curriculum Writer), Emily Mitchell (Senior Content Writer), Sara Pompeo (Editor), Maggie Saine (Spanish Services Lead & Education Specialist), and Jennifer Sitton (Director of Science & Product Development). Team members hold degrees in fields including art education, gifted education, psychology, biology, creativity and change leadership, history, museum studies, middle childhood education with focuses in mathematics and ELA, advertising, professional and technical writing with journalism, Spanish, biopsychology, cell and organismal biology, and biology specializing in science education, and include a certified Dream Manager and a professional certificate holder in free-choice learning.
Last updated April 2, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: 2026 program dates are June 15–19, with program times from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Price: Camper price is $350 and Leaders-in-Training price is $250, with a $60 discount automatically applied for a second week and payment plans available up to 8 weeks before the camp start date
Camp Invention is for children entering grades K–6, with Leaders-in-Training spots for students in grades 7–9, and LITs support campers throughout the week at in-person locations. The curriculum can vary by site, and the education team collaborates with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to create new program curricula each year that combine hands-on fun and creativity with STEM concepts, align with state and national education standards, and integrate 21st-century learning with hands-on activities. Palm Valley School is running two weeks of Camp Invention, and a limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Camp Invention is part of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which has honored the spirit of innovation and promoted inventors as role models since 1973, impacting more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation since it was founded in 1973. The organization’s mission is to inspire emerging creators and entrepreneurs through its education programs and to honor the history of innovation through its museum and Hall of Fame Inductees. It is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and works in partnership with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, along with 2,144 philanthropic partners.
The leadership and education team includes Rachelle Albrechta (Director of Program Development), Jayme Cellitioci (Senior Director of Education), Ashley Giordano (Manager of Program Management), Susie Duchon (Education Specialist), Rachel Lutes (Curriculum Writer), Emily Mitchell (Senior Content Writer), Sara Pompeo (Editor), Maggie Saine (Spanish Services Lead & Education Specialist), and Jennifer Sitton (Director of Science & Product Development). Team members hold degrees in fields including art education, gifted education, psychology, biology, creativity and change leadership, history, museum studies, middle childhood education with focuses in mathematics and ELA, advertising, professional and technical writing with journalism, Spanish, biopsychology, cell and organismal biology, and biology specializing in science education, and include a certified Dream Manager and a professional certificate holder in free-choice learning.
Last updated April 2, 2026.
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