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Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience that features fun, hands-on STEM adventures and hands-on challenges built around open-ended adventures. Campers miniaturize top-secret innovations, safeguard their designs using cryptography, protect their intellectual property and time travel 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 diving into hands-on buoyancy experiments, paddling through salty challenges, sketching, designing and building prototypes, creating an innovative billboard boat, building a DIY rocket, launching a mission to transform a faraway planet’s atmosphere, terrain and ecosystem, racing a Rover to collect important data and samples, designing and building inventions for navigating intense planetary conditions, hatching a mysterious animal egg, encountering a dazzling crystal surprise and joining high-energy morning games that encourage creativity and teamwork.
• 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.
• 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 features the 2026 Camp Invention program “Spark” and program themes including The Infringers™, Fur-ensics™, Make Waves™ and Space Morphers™. Campers team up with real-world inventors through education programs that combine hands-on fun and creativity with STEM concepts. Experiences are carefully crafted to spark joy and ensure the development of persistence, adaptability and creative problem-solving skills. Camp Invention is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities.
Camp Invention is run by a leadership and education team that 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 has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. 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.
Camp Invention works 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. It also works with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible. Parents and grandparents describe children coming home eager to share what they learned, excited to bring inventions home, gaining confidence, making friends, enjoying hands-on creative play and looking forward to returning to Camp Invention in future years.
Last updated May 13, 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.
• 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 features the 2026 Camp Invention program “Spark” and program themes including The Infringers™, Fur-ensics™, Make Waves™ and Space Morphers™. Campers team up with real-world inventors through education programs that combine hands-on fun and creativity with STEM concepts. Experiences are carefully crafted to spark joy and ensure the development of persistence, adaptability and creative problem-solving skills. Camp Invention is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities.
Camp Invention is run by a leadership and education team that 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 has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. 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.
Camp Invention works 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. It also works with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible. Parents and grandparents describe children coming home eager to share what they learned, excited to bring inventions home, gaining confidence, making friends, enjoying hands-on creative play and looking forward to returning to Camp Invention in future years.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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