About
Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience that includes hands-on STEM adventures and several themed modules such as The Infringers, Fur-ensics, Make Waves and Space Morphers. Participants take part in high-energy morning games that encourage creativity and teamwork, miniaturize top-secret innovations, safeguard their designs using cryptography, and protect their intellectual property from the Infringers while time traveling to ensure their ideas are patented and protected. They also create sleuthing gadgets, collect bits of fluffy fur, reveal a trail of animal tracks, examine suspicious splatters, forensically analyze 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, Rover Race to collect important data and samples, design and build inventions for navigating intense planetary conditions, hatch a mysterious animal egg and encounter a crystal surprise.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: A 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, and its education programs are created in collaboration with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees. The program has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. To fulfill its mission of making STEM education accessible and promoting innovation across the country, the education team develops new program curricula each year with these Inductees. Over the past year, Camp Invention has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico and has 2,144 philanthropic partners, and it was founded and is supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The leadership team includes Rachelle Albrechta, Jayme Cellitioci, Ashley Giordano, Susie Duchon, Rachel Lutes, Emily Mitchell, Sara Pompeo, Maggie Saine and Jennifer Sitton.
Parent and caregiver feedback includes comments that children came home beaming with excitement and eager to share what they were learning, and that some families are already signing up for next year. Several parents and grandparents report that their children gained knowledge, made friends, enjoyed hands-on creative play and were excited to bring inventions home and teach siblings. Some parents describe Camp Invention as a highlight of their summer, note that their children wanted to attend each day and were never bored, and share that their children’s curiosity, imagination and interest in inventing things increased during the program.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: A 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, and its education programs are created in collaboration with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees. The program has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. To fulfill its mission of making STEM education accessible and promoting innovation across the country, the education team develops new program curricula each year with these Inductees. Over the past year, Camp Invention has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico and has 2,144 philanthropic partners, and it was founded and is supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The leadership team includes Rachelle Albrechta, Jayme Cellitioci, Ashley Giordano, Susie Duchon, Rachel Lutes, Emily Mitchell, Sara Pompeo, Maggie Saine and Jennifer Sitton.
Parent and caregiver feedback includes comments that children came home beaming with excitement and eager to share what they were learning, and that some families are already signing up for next year. Several parents and grandparents report that their children gained knowledge, made friends, enjoyed hands-on creative play and were excited to bring inventions home and teach siblings. Some parents describe Camp Invention as a highlight of their summer, note that their children wanted to attend each day and were never bored, and share that their children’s curiosity, imagination and interest in inventing things increased during the program.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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