About
Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience that features fun, hands-on STEM adventures and open-ended adventures. Participants take on hands-on challenges such as miniaturizing top-secret innovations, safeguarding their designs using cryptography, and time traveling to ensure their ideas are patented and protected. They 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. Campers also dive into hands-on buoyancy experiments, paddle their way 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, and design and build inventions for navigating the intense conditions of their planet. Additional activities include hatching a mysterious animal egg, encountering a crystal surprise, and taking part in 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, and some locations offer Before and After Care
• 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 and is part of a summer day camp filled with fun, hands-on STEM adventures. The program offers a new 2026 Camp Invention program called “Spark” with four themed modules: Infringers™, Fur-ensics™, Make Waves™, and Space Morphers™. Education programs align with state and national education standards, integrate 21st-century learning with fun, hands-on activities, and use customized, one-of-a-kind take-home products developed for the programs.
Camp Invention is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. Since 1973, it has impacted more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation. Over the past year, it has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible. Its 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 program’s 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).
Parents and caregivers describe a range of experiences with Camp Invention. One parent, Sonia S., says her daughter came home beaming with excitement and eager to share what she was learning. Another parent, Katie J., notes that her son, who had been quiet before camp, wanted to try everything and be more involved with friends after attending. Several parents, including Heather D. and Amie J., mention that their children were excited to bring inventions home and that their children’s interest in inventing grew during the program. Other parents and grandparents, such as Meghan M., Alexa N., and Amanda H., describe daily conversations about camp on the way home, children being eager to attend each day, and children gaining friends and enjoying cooperative learning. Some parents, including Apryle S. and Courtney S., share that their children, including those who are autistic, gifted, or who struggle with focus in school, enjoyed the hands-on activities and were fully engaged. Additional comments from parents like Beverly L., Tara T., Jenna M., Jennifer M., Alison F., and Lisa D. describe their children enjoying hands-on creative play, focusing on creativity, problem solving and innovation, and having positive first-time camp experiences.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong STEM experience; camp dates and hours vary by location, and some locations offer Before and After Care
• 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 and is part of a summer day camp filled with fun, hands-on STEM adventures. The program offers a new 2026 Camp Invention program called “Spark” with four themed modules: Infringers™, Fur-ensics™, Make Waves™, and Space Morphers™. Education programs align with state and national education standards, integrate 21st-century learning with fun, hands-on activities, and use customized, one-of-a-kind take-home products developed for the programs.
Camp Invention is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. Since 1973, it has impacted more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation. Over the past year, it has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible. Its 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 program’s 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).
Parents and caregivers describe a range of experiences with Camp Invention. One parent, Sonia S., says her daughter came home beaming with excitement and eager to share what she was learning. Another parent, Katie J., notes that her son, who had been quiet before camp, wanted to try everything and be more involved with friends after attending. Several parents, including Heather D. and Amie J., mention that their children were excited to bring inventions home and that their children’s interest in inventing grew during the program. Other parents and grandparents, such as Meghan M., Alexa N., and Amanda H., describe daily conversations about camp on the way home, children being eager to attend each day, and children gaining friends and enjoying cooperative learning. Some parents, including Apryle S. and Courtney S., share that their children, including those who are autistic, gifted, or who struggle with focus in school, enjoyed the hands-on activities and were fully engaged. Additional comments from parents like Beverly L., Tara T., Jenna M., Jennifer M., Alison F., and Lisa D. describe their children enjoying hands-on creative play, focusing on creativity, problem solving and innovation, and having positive first-time camp experiences.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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