Camp Invention challenged students to find their “inner inventor” by learning the process of invention and innovation and promoted STEM learning.
Camp Invention, a nationally recognized program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame®, has been a popular summer destination for young people across the country. The national camp has been held at the Sudie A. Fulford Community Learning Center at East Georgia State College for the past nine years. This year’s camp was held the week of July 12-16.
Each year, the program features a new curriculum inspired by some of our nation’s greatest inventors — the NIHF Inductees. For 2021, the Recharge curriculum featured exclusive video content from these inductees encouraging children to be confident in their ideas and explore their ability to innovate. These hands-on modules include:
- Open Mic™: Campers amplified their creative voice, reverse engineered a wireless microphone, and then developed and promoted their own extraordinary invention.
- Duck Chuck™: Through hands-on experiments with trajectory and velocity, children built their own device to launch rubber ducks around the world.
- Road Rally™: Imaginations accelerated as children designed nature-inspired vehicles that can zoom across land and have prototype elements for moving through air and water.
- SolarBot™: Campers took care of their very own solar-powered robotic cricket, and created protective gear, a customized habitat, and a fun cricket playground.
About Camp Invention
Camp Invention is the only nationally recognized summer program focused on creativity, innovation, real-world problem solving and the spirit of invention. Through hands-on programming, Camp Invention encourages children entering kindergarten through sixth grade to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum inspired by some of the world’s greatest inventors. Camp Invention is a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. This nationwide, nonprofit organization is committed to the curious minds and innovative spirits of the past, present and future. Since 1990, the education programs have served more than 1.5 million children, and 170,000 teachers and Leadership Interns.
