About
Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience where children take part in hands-on STEM adventures and hands-on challenges. Participants explore open-ended adventures such as miniaturizing top-secret innovations, safeguarding their designs using cryptography, and time traveling to ensure their ideas are patented and protected. They also investigate a series of mischievous pranks, create sleuthing gadgets, collect bits of fluffy fur, reveal a trail of animal tracks, examine suspicious splatters, and forensically analyze the evidence. Additional activities include hands-on buoyancy experiments, paddling through salty challenges, sketching, designing and building prototypes, creating an innovative billboard boat, building a DIY rocket, and launching a mission to transform a faraway planet’s atmosphere, terrain and ecosystem with a Rover Race to collect important data and samples and inventions for navigating intense conditions. Children may also hatch a mysterious animal egg, encounter a dazzling crystal surprise, and join high-energy morning games that encourage creativity and teamwork.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong STEM experience; camp dates and hours vary by location
• Price: Pricing starts at $285 or approximately $9 per hour; payment plans are available at checkout up to eight weeks before camp start date
Camp Invention is led by qualified local educators. The program is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities and integrates 21st-century learning with fun, hands-on activities. Its programs align with state and national education standards and are created in collaboration with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees, who work with the education team to develop new curricula each year.
Camp Invention is operated by an organization that has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, impacting more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation. The leadership 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). The organization partners with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico and was founded and is supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, along with 2,144 philanthropic partners.
Parents and caregivers have shared that their children came home eager to talk about what they learned, enjoyed bringing inventions home, and were excited to return to camp, including signing up for future summers. Several testimonials describe children who were typically hesitant about camps being excited to attend each day, as well as children who enjoyed the hands-on creative play and projects. Some families noted that siblings of different ages all participated, and others mentioned that their children made friends and wanted to keep inventing after the program ended.
Last updated April 26, 2026.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong STEM experience; camp dates and hours vary by location
• Price: Pricing starts at $285 or approximately $9 per hour; payment plans are available at checkout up to eight weeks before camp start date
Camp Invention is led by qualified local educators. The program is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities and integrates 21st-century learning with fun, hands-on activities. Its programs align with state and national education standards and are created in collaboration with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees, who work with the education team to develop new curricula each year.
Camp Invention is operated by an organization that has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, impacting more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation. The leadership 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). The organization partners with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico and was founded and is supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, along with 2,144 philanthropic partners.
Parents and caregivers have shared that their children came home eager to talk about what they learned, enjoyed bringing inventions home, and were excited to return to camp, including signing up for future summers. Several testimonials describe children who were typically hesitant about camps being excited to attend each day, as well as children who enjoyed the hands-on creative play and projects. Some families noted that siblings of different ages all participated, and others mentioned that their children made friends and wanted to keep inventing after the program ended.
Last updated April 26, 2026.
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