Camp Invention sparked students imagination and math and science skills for the third summer in a row.
Campers, from first to sixth grade, participated in five different modules during the week.
They created art out of recycled materials in “Art Park.”
They tackled a polluted city and figured out ways to clean it up and reinvent the city in “Saving Sludge City.”
They played different games that required them to work together as a team and inventive thinking in “Recess Remix.”
In “I Can Invent,” they brought in old machinery, like an alarm clock or computer, and took it apart to see how it worked. Then, they used the parts and their ideas for a new invention. The older kids used the parts to develop a Rube Goldberg machine, a multi-step machine that does a simple task. Their machine had to launch water balloons.
They were also astronauts during the week in” M.A.R.S. (Moving at Rocket Speed.)” They had to plan and prepare for a voyage out of this world and create ways to communicate with friends and family back home.

“The main goal is for the kids to have fun,” said Assistant Director Dennis Klenow.
“Other goals are to develop problem solving skills, then use those skills ways for different challenges and inventions. They do make inventions throughout the week, it’s not about if it works, it’s the outcome, how they got there and how they learned from it.”