Camp Invention® 2023 | National Inventors Hall of Fame®
A STEM Summer Camp Program for Grades K-6 That Turns Curious Kids Into Innovative Thinkers
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What is Camp Invention?
- Who: Curious kids entering grades K-6.
- What: A confidence-boosting STEM summer camp where kids build creative inventions and lasting friendships. Led by qualified local educators, our camps offer new and exciting hands-on activities every year.
- Where: Over 1,000 camp programs run nationwide in schools, community centers and other local facilities!
- When: Our day camp’s dates and hours vary by location. Some locations also offer before and after care to fit busy parents’ schedules. If your local camps don’t offer dates and times that work for you, we can also send an at-home camp experience directly to your doorstep.
- How Much: Pricing for this weeklong STEM summer camp, complete with take-home materials and limitless inspiration, starts at $260.
See your local camp for exact pricing.
- Why: To help your child grow their confidence, build problem-solving skills, reduce summer learning loss, improve academic achievement, discover innovative role models and more!
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Here’s what an action-packed day looks like with Camp Invention
A.M. Base Camp
Drop off your camper with qualified local educators and Camp Invention Leadership Interns, and they’ll start each day with games that encourage teamwork and spark creativity.
Morning Experiences
Campers take on two creative experiences and enjoy the healthy snacks they’ve brought to help keep their minds moving.
Games & Lunch
Half of the campers head outside — or to the gym — to play action-packed games while the other campers eat the lunch they’ve packed. Then they switch!
Afternoon Experiences
Time for two more experiences that will introduce your child to world-changing inventors, keep them active, and encourage their curiosity and creative thinking.
P.M. Base Camp
The day wraps up as campers wind down with problem-solving games. When you sign out your camper, they’ll tell you just how much fun they had at Camp Invention!
Discover our new 2023 Camp Invention program, Wonder
This year’s all-new program is designed to ignite wonder, encourage confidence and build essential STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills through collaborative, creative problem solving. As campers join their friends in so much hands-on fun and excitement, they will be blown away by their discoveries and STEM successes!
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Build Big Ideas With Pop-Up Venture™
Children become innovative entrepreneurs as they design their own mini pop-up business! Campers create a business plan and choose how to spend their startup funds. Employing their imaginations, they add lights, greenery, logoed signage and other features to attract customers. After inventing unique ways to distribute their products, children launch their business with the ultimate pop-up event!
Create and Skate With Catching Air™
As children build their own mini skate park with ramps, bowls and rails, they take an exciting ride through physics, design engineering and art! Campers personalize their mini skateboards, create DIY skateboard riders and design awesome skate park features. Then it’s time to grind the rails of innovation as they kickflip their way through each other’s one-of-a-kind Skate Parks!
Show Your Style With MimicBot™
Children investigate the inner workings of their own MimicBot — a robot that mimics sounds — and transform it into a one-of-a-kind animatronic stuffie! They find inspiration in nature, get hands-on with design and use the power of intellectual property to protect their stuffie from the idea-stealing Copy Cat. Then campers take their stuffie home to keep creating and innovating!
Party On With Invention Celebration™
To create the best celebration ever, children become confident event planners! They have fun engineering light-up party hats, inventing a Party Assistant to help with their big plans, exploring color with bubble art banners and experimenting with sound as they create instruments. When the day of the big celebration arrives, children rotate between fun stations as they celebrate all their amazing accomplishments.
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Camp Invention Alum’s Bow Tie Business Inspires Confidence
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Camp Invention Alumni Win Nationwide Dreamvention Contest!
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Camp Invention Connect®: An At-Home Summer Experience
An At-Home Summer Camp Offering Real Hands-On Fun for Grades K-6
What is Camp Invention Connect?
The most inspiring online summer camp available anywhere!
Who: Curious kids entering grades K-6! This is the perfect program for families who are on the go, working from home or far from a local camp, and for kids who thrive in at-home, self-paced settings.
What: An opportunity to safely explore hands-on STEM fun at your own pace
Where: Anywhere you are
When: Camp is offered June 26–30, July 10–14 or July 24–28, and you can choose the week that works best for you
Why: Because when kids have this much fun creating, they won’t even realize how much they’re learning!
How much: $260 for a week of action-packed virtual camp sessions and all the materials your child will need
Here’s how our camp works:
- Your Innovator’s Toolkit — packed with all the materials needed for your STEM summer camp experience — is shipped directly to your door
- Your child can join a week of virtual camp sessions (four per day for five consecutive days!) led by a qualified educator, and they’ll get access to exclusive online resources
- Virtual session attendance is recommended but not required, so your child can join all, some or none of the sessions
- Even if you don’t plan to join any virtual sessions, we ask that you sign up for a specific week — this will tell us when to ship your Innovator’s Toolkit and ensure that if you do decide to join virtual sessions, we will have a spot saved for you!
Here’s what an action-packed day looks like with Camp Invention Connect
Get Excited for Your Program
The Innovator’s Toolkit — packed with everything your camper needs — will be sent straight to your home ahead of the program start date, so you’ll be set for a week of hands-on fun and exploration!
When your package arrives, your camper can check out all their materials and set up their own space for creativity with their Innovator Workshop, complete with a Toolbelt and Maker Mat.
Daily Kickoff (9 a.m.)
Your child will join an educator — their Camp Invention Connect Coach — and fellow campers to start each day of camp with a live online session that includes icebreakers, instruction and opportunities to collaborate.
If your camper can’t join live, don’t worry — you will have access to videos that go through each activity step by step.
Create and Invent (11 a.m.)
Following a quick break, kids get back together online to make, create and invent with their Coach and fellow campers.
Afternoon Hangout (1 p.m.)
After taking a break for lunch, kids join their Coach and fellow campers to socialize, build friendships and gear up for the rest of the day’s hands-on fun.
Unplug and Get Outdoors
Hands-on STEM exploration continues as kids enjoy screen-free time and get outdoors with high-energy activities.
Collaborate and Share (2 p. m.)
Each afternoon, campers regroup with their Coach online to complete their final challenge and proudly share their projects and inventions.
When you sign up for a specific week, this tells us when to ship your Innovator’s Toolkit and ensures that a spot will be saved for you in our virtual sessions. A schedule and meeting links for the optional live sessions will be provided by your Camp Invention Connect® Coach the week before your start date.
June 26 – 30
July 10 – 14
July 24 – 28
Delivering an All-New Adventure to Your Doorstep
The Camp Invention Connect program, Elevate, covers a variety of STEM subjects through unique challenges inspired by world-changing inventors. Coaches help kids make real connections through instruction, teamwork and outdoor play. It all adds up to a one-of-a-kind experience that’s sure to get kids thinking, moving and creating!
Camp Invention Flight Lab™
Imaginations soar as children learn about principles of flight, going outdoors to experiment with paper planes and hand-copters. They also get two robots — one to take apart and investigate, and one to customize as their very own flight simulation robot.
Rescue Squad™
As they uncover ways to protect the Earth’s ecosystems, children will be eager to team up and take on inspiring activities. Campers explore bioluminescence as they use LEDs to create a glowing flower, and they build parachutes to safely airdrop animals, restoring balance to their habitats.
Design Thinking Project™
Children learn the value of their creativity as they enjoy open-ended activities that bring their biggest ideas to life. Using the materials in their toolkit, they create sketches, build and test prototypes, design logos and confidently pitch their products while protecting their intellectual property.
Camp Invention Champions™
As they discover the great inventors behind their favorite sports, children apply their own game-changing ingenuity and design thinking. They collect inventor playing cards, design and build the ultimate sports complex, and then head outside to play their new games.
Why choose Camp Invention Connect?
For more than 30 years, Camp Invention® has been inspiring confidence and creativity through fun, hands-on STEM activities. Now, young innovators can bring the excitement of this STEM summer program home with Camp Invention Connect.
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Daria
I would like to thank Mudra! I am very glad that I contacted you!
This summer I had my graduation from IED Barcelona and completed a year of Global Design. This is a great program for those who, like me, are not quite sure in which direction of design they want to move and in general what design is.
I am extremely happy that I entered this university, and of course, without the help of Tatyana Melnichenko, I would never have done it on my own! Thank you so much for all your help and incredible support! Even at the first meeting, when I was just thinking about which university to enter, I was offered many different options with all the necessary and additional information! And then it was even better. Everything is always on time, everything is clear and easy, everything is planned and rechecked several times.
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Earlscliffe College
Hello everyone! My name is Tatyana, I have been studying in England for 4 years in a row with the help of the wonderful company Mudra, and each time it gets more interesting and fun))) This year I studied at Earlscliffe College – a very solid school. I really liked it there, the staff, teachers are real professionals who can be seen to work with students.
Thank you very much to the company and of course Tatyana Melnichenko, who tries to offer us the best conditions, worries with us and our parents. This man is a true professional.
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Arina
Hello, I’m Arina Sotchenko. I want to write a review about a trip to Malta. I am very satisfied with the trip itself. New and vivid impressions always bring only pleasure. The trip also brought benefits, because it was an educational program. However, services and how you can provide this very pleasure is also very important in the service industry. Chief Consultant Tatyana Melnichenko provided us with all the information we needed. We were provided detailed answers to all questions and openness to cooperation.
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Irina
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We were brought to Mudra by chance. Together with my daughter, we looked at the possibilities of education in the field of design and got to the presentations of universities, organized with the assistance of Mudra. And now I know for sure that this acquaintance was not accidental.
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Katerina
Long satisfied with the equal professionalism of the company’s consultants. It is necessary to respect the details, help the bajannya. More than once I took off the short hair from the side of the consultants from the food of the bright future child. So trim!
Two last years of my son having been on the course of Academic Summer, having developed a dekilka of subjects in English language.
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Olga
Good afternoon, my name is Olga! This summer I decided to send my girls to an English speaking school. On the advice of our friends, we turned to MUDRA, namely Tatiana Melnichenko.
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Thank you for your work, thank you, I leaned there for a long time. All meals were fluently, clearly and point by point, there was no such thing that it didn’t happen, on the contrary, everything was easy, step by step, led us to the end of the wind! Thank you very much, that I would call you in a moment and you could answer and tell how you would be better in this situation! 🙂
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Anastasia
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My name is Anastasia. I’m not looking forward to the services of the Mudra company, enlightened beyond the cordon. In 2018, the roci bula was insured for the course “Medical English” at the current ILSC school near Vancouver, Canada. The success of the happy robotic company “Mudra” was completed by the trip, and after the arrival, the trip began to plan more expensively.
This time I chose Great Britain.
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Ariana
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The Vdyachka company is wise, as it has given the best services for training at the Earlsclife Summer School on the mini MBA program.
Qualified practitioners lied all the time, they were in charge of the call and supported the prolongation of the period of filling out the questionnaire, collecting and submitting documents for a student visa (which was accepted without problems), arranging the transfer, etc.
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Kondratenko Nastya
Good afternoon. My trip to Nice to celebrate the movie was a miracle! Tse positive hour that tell me. Everything is spiritually the same. At the French homeland, I felt like at home. Sylva was very respectful and turbulent, she explained everything perfectly in the lessons. Skoda, what an hour to fly so quickly, and everything to pass. Ale with us forever linger in the memory of beautiful and positive vibes.
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Klim
Well, I recently took a course in Critical Thinking from EtonX. It has been fitting! Really corisno and tsіkavo. The teacher is kind and motivating. Classes were held by a group of international students. I am alone from Ukraine.
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Oleg
Two years ago we returned to Mudra. Illumination beyond the cordon from the paths of choosing individual paths for the education of our child beyond the cordon. I want to say that we have never regretted that we turned ourselves into this company. For a long time they robbed the school, in which our son will be taught. We were worried that it would be important for children to adapt to the primary system of Great Britain. Pratsivniki not only picked up the school, but gave the services of psychological and academic support to the child.
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Tatiana from the very beginning, even before the payment, helped to understand the programs that the university provides, immediately informed about important documents, contacted them. We were a little worried, because before that we had already dealt with one company. We lost a lot of time and money for nothing, and in the end we just broke the contract. Now, thanks to Tatyana, I study at the university, where I entered. I am satisfied with my choice. 🙂 If I would do it again, I would contact you again 🙂
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I liked the trips, especially: London and Cambridge. The lessons were very interesting, the teachers liked it. The children are very friendly and I have made new friends. True, the food was not very tasty. There was also a good group leader, Oksana.
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Alexander
Hello my name is Oleksandr Sheredeko and I spent 3 weeks in Loughborough professional linguistic camp. During that time I enlarged my vocabulary a lot and I began to identify aspects of phonology such as word stress, sentence stress and intonation. We had interesting classes and teachers really helped us to improve ourselves in speaking communication, reading abilities, listening skills and vocabulary knowledge. To sum up I would like to show huge respect to company “Mudra” which organized marvelous trip.
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Tatyana
Remarkably working organization. I have been working with the Mudra company for the fourth year. Some positive impressions, as people working in the company are professionals in their field.
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Parents
Dear Mudra employees!
We express our gratitude for the attentive attitude and competent approach in organizing the summer holidays for our daughter Daria.
I really liked the camp, food, quality and interesting excursions, teachers. Thank you very much for your participation.
Sincerely, parents.
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Dmitry
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Sasha
It was a very exciting 3 weeks with lots of excursions. The lessons were quite interesting and informative. The teachers are funny and kind. The food wasn’t the most delicious, but that’s to be expected from England. Special thanks to Oksana. On the first day, it was embarrassing and inconvenient to get to know each other, but now they are my friends. Of course, I don’t want to go home, but this also means the quality of the trip. Thanks again to Mudra, Oksana and the children from the group for making this summer a wonderful trip.
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Tanya
These 3 weeks have passed unnoticed for me, I am very glad that I came here, I met people, got a lot of experience in English. We liked the cities we saw. I really liked the teachers, they were always kind and interesting. On the last day, I already understand that I don’t want to leave this place, and even more so to part with the boys with whom I was here, and I liked our Group Leader who always helped and supported us. I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to come to this camp.
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Sergey
I had experience of cooperation with this company and was very satisfied. The feeling of confidence that everything will work out never left me. And everything worked out! 🙂 The most important thing is that I always had the feeling that the company’s employees were personally interested in my success. Maybe it was? But the impressions are exceptionally good.
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Brothers Dima and Vanya
Good afternoon! We’ve been fine with everything. When we came here, there were a lot of Italians. Excursions were kind, but it’s a pity that the portfolio was lost. It was not enough for those who changed audiences in us. The teachers were the best. We’ve been fine with it. It’s only a pity that I can leave England. I RECOMMEND TO GO TO LUFFBOROGH.
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Anastasia
A month has passed in Canada. It was an unforgettable time. In 2018 I plan to enter one of the Canadian colleges. When choosing a college and specialty together with the Mudra organization, they decided that it would be useful for me to fly to Toronto and get prepared for the IELTS English test.
I was not mistaken in choosing the city of Toronto and the Mudra organization, which organized everything at the highest level. Thank you for such a trip and look forward to our further cooperation.
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Antonio
Qi The 3rd of the day that I saw in this camp were garnimes. Mali has a lot of excursions around the famous places of England. Excursions were normal. The teachers of the deacons were kind and cheerful, and the deacons were too strict and boring. Zha decal was not too tasty. Normal tabir
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Anna
Thank you for help in completing documents and for being able to find out more about other principal mortgages outside the cordon. The director of the company, Tetyana Shevchenko, gave me all the information I needed to bring to the university, which I collected.
All the information given by the company was true and I didn’t have any problems with the documents. For young people, if they want their life to be connected with the hotel right, I raja take my own company.
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Vitaliy
Thanks to the Mudra company, we managed to significantly improve the level of English and completely immerse ourselves in the culture of Great Britain. I recommend the training program and living in the teacher’s family to everyone. Memories and emotions for a lifetime.
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Nazar
Mudra.ua employs the right professionals. Highly qualified practitioners gave information in any way nutrition and always helped. I am extremely satisfied with the services of the company, I recommend it to everyone who wants to learn abroad!
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Irina
I would like to express my gratitude to the company “MUDRA”, and personally Tatiana Melnichenko, for the wonderfully organized study trips to the UK for my daughter Tatiana. For help in paperwork, for the selection of candidates, for a good attitude and constant control by the company. Everything is at the highest level, clearly, neatly, understandably, safely. We plan to continue our studies in the UK. We wish you success and prosperity.
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Anna
Excellent specialists! They offer prestigious educational institutions and treat the client at the highest level, I advise!
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Klim
In the past, my mother and I were planning a trip to England. I was a little bit afraid of the incomprehensibility of the inhabitants, but the stench spoke clearly and clearly. The lessons of the English were tsikavim, for we were scattered into groups of fallows, according to the knowledge of the language. We lived in quiet rooms, ate three times a day. After the lessons, it was too much for the students to take, it wasn’t boring. And the most beautiful ones were those that “activities” could be chosen to their own taste and likeness. Arriving at home, I have a charge of positive energy for the entire initial project ahead!
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Ruslan
I liked this trip, especially the trips to London and Cambridge. The lessons were interesting and I liked the teachers. I didn’t really like the food, but the pizza was very tasty. The children were friendly and I enjoyed talking to them.
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Maria
Battle Abbey School
Vletku, for 4 years, I started at Battle Abbey School, Сх. Sussex. I am absolutely impressed that the time I spent there, did not waste money and took away a lot of new hostility. Zagalom, such trips are not only for those who are improving the English language, especially the English language, but also for those who know new people, other cultures, the shards in this school are learning children not only from An gliї, ale z China ( Hong Kong), France, Sweden and other countries.
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Maizhe rik I am studying for a master’s degree in the Netherlands. For the whole hour, I never regretted about my choice, which the team of the Mudra company helped me to grow. The company employs not just experts and professionals in the field of education outside the cordon, but truly sincere people.
As soon as you dream of learning beyond the cordon, the skin of the day enjoy life and know yourself in life, join the company of the Wise, and you will definitely be deprived of the satisfaction of your choice.
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Columbus – City Guide
The business center of the city is Downtown. The Ohio State Capitol is located here. The majestic building, built in the Renaissance style, was erected for 18 years and opened on January 7, 1857. The area is calm, clean, well maintained and developing. In 2002, the city demolished a long defunct mall. In its place, the Columbus Commons public park was laid out. Cafes, gardens, concert venues are located on an area of 36,420 m². City events are regularly held here.
The main cultural and entertainment area of the city is located just north of the center and is called Short North. It’s hard to get past him. The attention of the tourist is immediately attracted by 17 illuminated metal arches spanning the High Street throughout the area. For this architectural find, Columbus is called the “City of Arches”. Brick buildings built at the beginning of the last century rise along the street. Often their end walls are painted by local city artists. These bright paintings are another hallmark of the area. The buildings house many art galleries, jazz bars, coffee shops and restaurants. And yet, High Street is a real paradise for shopaholics. It houses 670 fashion stores and designer boutiques. On the first Saturday of every month, according to tradition (it is almost 40 years old), all establishments work in a special mode and are open until late. Short North is very tolerant of the LGBT community. There are many themed nightclubs and bars, and a gay parade is held annually.
Easton Town Center is located northeast of the city center – a shopping and entertainment complex in the form of a small American town of the early twentieth century. There are pedestrian streets, fountains, shops, green areas, restaurants, a cinema hall and convenient parking. Good place for shopping, entertainment and family fun.
German Village, Italian Village, Victorian Village – small areas with different distances from the city center. They are lined with authentic and stylized buildings of the 19th century, green enough and suitable for leisurely walks. Each area has its own zest. For example, in the German Village, tourists will be offered to treat themselves to sausages and try many types of beer from local breweries. It even hosts the traditional Oktoberfest. In the Italian Village, a park dedicated to Columbus native Carl Proto has a beautiful picnic area and playground.