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Camp Invention features hands-on challenges that include entrepreneurship, brainstorming bright ideas, and pitching campers’ own prototypes. Participants explore the wonders of ocean science, launch a mission to find and prepare a brand-new planet for human life, invent clever tools to handle extreme conditions, reshape the terrain, and work on transforming an exoplanet into the next Earth. Campers also tackle tricky problems from their own backyards to far-off places through mystery-solving activities where they crack a string of silly crimes, follow puzzling footprints, gather tufts of fluffy fur, examine curious splatters, and uncover wacky clues, often alongside a trusty team of robotic capybaras and the Innovation Force, a group of real-life superhero inventors from the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Price: *Payment plans available up to 8 weeks before camp start date
Camp Invention is introducing an all-new 2026 Camp Invention experience, and its curriculum can vary per site. The program is powered by the I Can Invent Mindset and is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame, which runs Camp Invention, 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, its education team collaborates with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to create new program curricula each year.
The 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). Their staff credentials include degrees in fields such as art education, gifted education, psychology, biology, creativity and change leadership, history, museum studies, middle childhood education with focuses in mathematics and ELA, advertising, professional and technical writing with journalism, Spanish, biopsychology, cell and organismal biology, and a doctorate in biology specializing in science education.
In partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the National Inventors Hall of Fame honors the legacies of visionary U.S. patent holders. Over the past year, it has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, along with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible.
Last updated July 19, 2026.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Price: *Payment plans available up to 8 weeks before camp start date
Camp Invention is introducing an all-new 2026 Camp Invention experience, and its curriculum can vary per site. The program is powered by the I Can Invent Mindset and is part of several programs promoting innovation for all ages in all communities.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame, which runs Camp Invention, 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, its education team collaborates with National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to create new program curricula each year.
The 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). Their staff credentials include degrees in fields such as art education, gifted education, psychology, biology, creativity and change leadership, history, museum studies, middle childhood education with focuses in mathematics and ELA, advertising, professional and technical writing with journalism, Spanish, biopsychology, cell and organismal biology, and a doctorate in biology specializing in science education.
In partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the National Inventors Hall of Fame honors the legacies of visionary U.S. patent holders. Over the past year, it has partnered with over 1,400 districts nationwide and in Puerto Rico, along with 2,144 philanthropic partners making STEM education more accessible.
Last updated July 19, 2026.
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