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Camp Invention introduces an all-new 2026 experience with four themed modules: Fur-ensics, Make Waves, Space Morphers, and The Infringers. Participants take on hands-on challenges that include forensic science activities where they collect their own fingerprints, collect curious clues, examine suspicious splatters, and create a sleuthing gadget. They experiment with hands-on physics, design an eye-catching billboard boat that really floats, build a DIY rocket, and launch a mission to transform a planet for future habitation while collecting important data and recording scientific observations in their space lab. Campers also hatch a mysterious animal egg, encounter a dazzling crystal surprise, and construct a wearable cryptography device, and Fur-ensics includes an adorable robotic capybara, while The Infringers teams campers up with the Innovation Force, who are National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: 2026 program dates are June 22–25, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Price: Camper Price: $285; Leaders-in-Training Price: $185; Payment plans available up to 8 weeks before camp start date
Camp Invention offers a Leaders-in-Training program for 7th–9th graders to gain mentoring and collaboration skills while helping guide campers. The curriculum can vary per site, and the education programs align with state and national education standards and integrate 21st-century learning with hands-on activities. Camp Invention is part of a group of education programs that has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, impacting more than 4 million children, students, educators, and innovators across the nation. 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 curriculum team includes Rachelle Albrechta (Director of Program Development), who holds a bachelor’s degree in art education and a master’s in education as a gifted intervention specialist and is a certified Dream Manager. It also includes Jayme Cellitioci (Senior Director of Education), who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology/biology, a master’s in creativity and change leadership, and a professional certificate in free-choice learning, and Ashley Giordano (Manager of Program Management), who holds a master’s degree in history and a museum studies certificate from the University of Delaware. Additional team members include Education Specialist Susie Duchon, who is a Creative Education Foundation trained Ideator; Curriculum Writer Rachel Lutes, who holds a bachelor’s degree in middle childhood education with a focus in mathematics and ELA; Senior Content Writer Emily Mitchell, who holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Kent State University; Editor Sara Pompeo, who holds a bachelor’s degree in professional and technical writing with a professional area of study in journalism; Spanish Services Lead & Education Specialist Maggie Saine, who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in Spanish from Ohio University; and Director of Science & Product Development Jennifer Sitton, who holds a bachelor’s degree in biopsychology, a master’s in cell and organismal biology, and a doctorate in biology specializing in science education.
Camp Invention is part of the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s education programs, which have been honoring the legacies of visionary U.S. patent holders in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1973. These programs have partnered with over 2,500 schools and districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico over the past year and are founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. There are 2,144 philanthropic partners supporting these efforts to make STEM education more accessible, and the organization offers several programs promoting innovation for all ages in many communities.
Last updated February 3, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: 2026 program dates are June 22–25, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Price: Camper Price: $285; Leaders-in-Training Price: $185; Payment plans available up to 8 weeks before camp start date
Camp Invention offers a Leaders-in-Training program for 7th–9th graders to gain mentoring and collaboration skills while helping guide campers. The curriculum can vary per site, and the education programs align with state and national education standards and integrate 21st-century learning with hands-on activities. Camp Invention is part of a group of education programs that has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973, impacting more than 4 million children, students, educators, and innovators across the nation. 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 curriculum team includes Rachelle Albrechta (Director of Program Development), who holds a bachelor’s degree in art education and a master’s in education as a gifted intervention specialist and is a certified Dream Manager. It also includes Jayme Cellitioci (Senior Director of Education), who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology/biology, a master’s in creativity and change leadership, and a professional certificate in free-choice learning, and Ashley Giordano (Manager of Program Management), who holds a master’s degree in history and a museum studies certificate from the University of Delaware. Additional team members include Education Specialist Susie Duchon, who is a Creative Education Foundation trained Ideator; Curriculum Writer Rachel Lutes, who holds a bachelor’s degree in middle childhood education with a focus in mathematics and ELA; Senior Content Writer Emily Mitchell, who holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Kent State University; Editor Sara Pompeo, who holds a bachelor’s degree in professional and technical writing with a professional area of study in journalism; Spanish Services Lead & Education Specialist Maggie Saine, who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in Spanish from Ohio University; and Director of Science & Product Development Jennifer Sitton, who holds a bachelor’s degree in biopsychology, a master’s in cell and organismal biology, and a doctorate in biology specializing in science education.
Camp Invention is part of the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s education programs, which have been honoring the legacies of visionary U.S. patent holders in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1973. These programs have partnered with over 2,500 schools and districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico over the past year and are founded and supported in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. There are 2,144 philanthropic partners supporting these efforts to make STEM education more accessible, and the organization offers several programs promoting innovation for all ages in many communities.
Last updated February 3, 2026.
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