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Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM experience where campers take part in hands-on STEM adventures, high-energy morning games that encourage creativity and teamwork, and a variety of hands-on challenges and open-ended adventures. Activities include miniaturizing top-secret innovations, safeguarding designs using cryptography, time traveling to ensure ideas are patented and protected, investigating a series of mischievous pranks, creating sleuthing gadgets, collecting bits of fluffy fur to reveal a trail of animal tracks, examining suspicious splatters, and forensically analyzing the evidence. Campers also 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; each day begins with high-energy morning games followed by two of the all-new experiences.
• 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 and is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities. The program’s education offerings align with state and national education standards and include a new 2026 Camp Invention program called Spark, where campers team up with real-world inventors and focus on invention superpowers and intellectual property protection. The curriculum features a forensics-themed set of activities with robotic capybaras, an entrepreneurship-focused module inspired by surfboard innovations and ocean advertising, and a space-themed module involving DIY rockets and planetary transformation.
Camp Invention is run by an organization that 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. Its mission is to inspire emerging creators and entrepreneurs through education programs and to honor the history of innovation through a museum and Hall of Fame Inductees. Over the past year, it has partnered with more than 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 to make STEM education more accessible. Over 1,500 Camp Invention programs run nationwide in schools, community centers and other local facilities, and some locations offer Before and After Care to fit families’ busy schedules.
Camp Invention’s 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).
Parents and caregivers have shared that their children came home eager to talk about what they were learning, enjoyed bringing inventions home, and were excited to return to camp. Families have described children gaining confidence, making friends, engaging in hands-on creative play, and wanting to keep inventing after the program. Several parents and grandparents from locations including Durham, NC; West Lafayette, OH; Westminster, MD; Mansfield, TX; Leavittsburg, OH; Moultrie, GA; Easton, PA; Anderson, SC; Richardson, TX; Lewisburg, PA; Akron, OH; Wayne, NJ; Ingleside, IL; Lowell, IN; and Canton, OH have reported that Camp Invention was a positive experience for their children.
Last updated May 14, 2026.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: A weeklong STEM experience; each day begins with high-energy morning games followed by two of the all-new experiences.
• 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 and is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities. The program’s education offerings align with state and national education standards and include a new 2026 Camp Invention program called Spark, where campers team up with real-world inventors and focus on invention superpowers and intellectual property protection. The curriculum features a forensics-themed set of activities with robotic capybaras, an entrepreneurship-focused module inspired by surfboard innovations and ocean advertising, and a space-themed module involving DIY rockets and planetary transformation.
Camp Invention is run by an organization that 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. Its mission is to inspire emerging creators and entrepreneurs through education programs and to honor the history of innovation through a museum and Hall of Fame Inductees. Over the past year, it has partnered with more than 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 to make STEM education more accessible. Over 1,500 Camp Invention programs run nationwide in schools, community centers and other local facilities, and some locations offer Before and After Care to fit families’ busy schedules.
Camp Invention’s 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).
Parents and caregivers have shared that their children came home eager to talk about what they were learning, enjoyed bringing inventions home, and were excited to return to camp. Families have described children gaining confidence, making friends, engaging in hands-on creative play, and wanting to keep inventing after the program. Several parents and grandparents from locations including Durham, NC; West Lafayette, OH; Westminster, MD; Mansfield, TX; Leavittsburg, OH; Moultrie, GA; Easton, PA; Anderson, SC; Richardson, TX; Lewisburg, PA; Akron, OH; Wayne, NJ; Ingleside, IL; Lowell, IN; and Canton, OH have reported that Camp Invention was a positive experience for their children.
Last updated May 14, 2026.
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