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Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience where campers take part in hands-on STEM adventures. Activities include high-energy morning games that encourage creativity and teamwork, miniaturizing top-secret innovations, safeguarding their designs using cryptography, and protecting their intellectual property from the Infringers while they time travel to ensure their ideas are patented and protected. Campers also investigate a series of mischievous pranks, create sleuthing gadgets, collect bits of fluffy fur, reveal a trail of animal tracks, examine suspicious splatters, forensically analyze the evidence, dive into hands-on buoyancy experiments, paddle through salty challenges, sketch, design and build prototypes, create an innovative billboard boat, build a DIY rocket, launch a mission to transform a faraway planet’s atmosphere, terrain and ecosystem, race a Rover to collect important data and samples, design and build inventions for navigating intense planetary conditions, hatch a mysterious animal egg, and encounter a dazzling crystal surprise.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: A weeklong STEM experience. Camp dates and hours vary by location, and some locations offer Before and After Care; families are directed to check their specific site for details.
• Price: Pricing starts at $285 or about $9 per hour, with payment plans available at checkout up to eight weeks before the camp start date.
Camp Invention is led by qualified local educators. The program includes experiences called The Infringers™, Fur-ensics™, Make Waves™, and Space Morphers™, and campers team up with real-world inventors. Education programs align with state and national education standards and are part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities. Camp Invention has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, and its programs have impacted more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation. 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.
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). Camp Invention operates in partnership with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico over the past year and is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Parent and caregiver feedback includes comments such as a child coming home “beaming with excitement” and eager to share what she was learning, and a parent noting that their son “wants to try everything and be more involved with friends.” Several families describe children being excited to bring inventions home, talk about camp on the way home each day, and sign up again for the next year. One caregiver reports that a grandchild gained knowledge, confidence, friends, a sense of cooperative learning, openness to others’ ideas, and an opportunity to have fun while learning. Other parents mention children who were typically hesitant about camp waking up early and excited to attend, and children who said they were never bored, enjoyed making projects, and made friends.
Last updated April 21, 2026.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: A weeklong STEM experience. Camp dates and hours vary by location, and some locations offer Before and After Care; families are directed to check their specific site for details.
• Price: Pricing starts at $285 or about $9 per hour, with payment plans available at checkout up to eight weeks before the camp start date.
Camp Invention is led by qualified local educators. The program includes experiences called The Infringers™, Fur-ensics™, Make Waves™, and Space Morphers™, and campers team up with real-world inventors. Education programs align with state and national education standards and are part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities. Camp Invention has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, and its programs have impacted more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation. 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.
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). Camp Invention operates in partnership with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico over the past year and is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Parent and caregiver feedback includes comments such as a child coming home “beaming with excitement” and eager to share what she was learning, and a parent noting that their son “wants to try everything and be more involved with friends.” Several families describe children being excited to bring inventions home, talk about camp on the way home each day, and sign up again for the next year. One caregiver reports that a grandchild gained knowledge, confidence, friends, a sense of cooperative learning, openness to others’ ideas, and an opportunity to have fun while learning. Other parents mention children who were typically hesitant about camp waking up early and excited to attend, and children who said they were never bored, enjoyed making projects, and made friends.
Last updated April 21, 2026.
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