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Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience where kids take part in hands-on STEM adventures such as time travel to ensure ideas are patented and protected, miniaturizing top-secret innovations, and safeguarding designs using cryptography to protect intellectual property from the Infringers. Participants investigate a series of mischievous pranks as they create sleuthing gadgets, collect bits of fluffy fur, reveal a trail of animal tracks, examine suspicious splatters, and forensically analyze the evidence. They also build confidence as they ride the waves of entrepreneurship through hands-on buoyancy experiments, paddling through salty challenges, generating ideas for unique, innovative products, sketching, designing and building prototypes, and creating an innovative billboard boat, as well as 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 conditions on their planet, making new discoveries in their Space Lab, hatching a mysterious animal egg, encountering a crystal surprise, and joining 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’s experiences are themed as The Infringers, Fur-ensics, Make Waves, and Space Morphers, and education programs align with state and national education standards. Camp Invention has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, and it has impacted more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation since 1973. To fulfill its mission of making STEM education accessible and promoting innovation across the country, the education team collaborates with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to create new program curricula each year. Over 1,500 camp programs run nationwide, and some locations offer Before and After Care. In the past year, Camp Invention has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and works with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible. A new 2026 Camp Invention program called Spark is also part of its offerings.
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).
Parents and caregivers describe their children coming home eager to share what they are learning, excited to bring inventions home, and interested in inventing things. Several parents and grandparents report that their children or grandchildren gained confidence, friends, and enjoyment from hands-on creative activities and cooperative learning, and some note changes such as increased involvement with friends, improved social skills, and growing excitement for education. Families also mention that children who were initially skeptical or hesitant to attend ended up looking forward to camp each day and wanting to return the following year.
Last updated May 13, 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’s experiences are themed as The Infringers, Fur-ensics, Make Waves, and Space Morphers, and education programs align with state and national education standards. Camp Invention has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, and it has impacted more than 4 million children, students, educators and innovators across the nation since 1973. To fulfill its mission of making STEM education accessible and promoting innovation across the country, the education team collaborates with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to create new program curricula each year. Over 1,500 camp programs run nationwide, and some locations offer Before and After Care. In the past year, Camp Invention has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, is founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and works with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible. A new 2026 Camp Invention program called Spark is also part of its offerings.
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).
Parents and caregivers describe their children coming home eager to share what they are learning, excited to bring inventions home, and interested in inventing things. Several parents and grandparents report that their children or grandchildren gained confidence, friends, and enjoyment from hands-on creative activities and cooperative learning, and some note changes such as increased involvement with friends, improved social skills, and growing excitement for education. Families also mention that children who were initially skeptical or hesitant to attend ended up looking forward to camp each day and wanting to return the following year.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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