Summer Enrichment
Camp Invention Information
Camp Invention is a one-week enrichment program in the summer where your child's creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills are challenged and developed in fun and exciting ways. The top priority is to inspire future innovators and build confidence in the natural ability to dream and create.
For children entering 1st - 6th grade in the 2026-2027 school year
Hosted at Miller Elementary, July 6-9, 2026, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Cost
Early Registration - $260 before May 1, 2026
Beginning May 1 - $290
Program Overview
Camp Invention - Spark will inspire curiosity and help students develop essential STEM skills through collaboration and problem solving. Campers explore hands-on challenges and open-ended adventures.
Infringers - Campers team up with real-world inventors and unlock their invention superpowers to solve challenges in their community and around the world! They miniaturize top-secret innovations, safeguard their designs using cryptography, and protect their intellectual property from the Infringers, who are duplicating inventions! In a race against time, children time travel to ensure their ideas are patented and protected against the Infringers.
Fur-ensics - Campers sharpen their detective skills as they investigate a series of mischievous pranks with Cap E. Bara and a fleet of robotic capybaras. Inspired by the inner mechanics of their capybara, campers create sleuthing gadgets to help them collect bits of fluffy fur and reveal a trail of animal tracks. Then they examine suspicious splatters, forensically analyze the evidence and discover a surprising twist!
Make Waves - Campers build confidence as they ride the waves of entrepreneurship and catch their first big break! Inspired by surfboard innovations, they dive into hands-on buoyancy experiments, paddle their way through salty challenges and generate ideas for unique, innovative products. Then they sketch, design and build prototypes before creating an innovative billboard boat to “make waves” in the market with ocean advertising.
Space Morphers - Campers stretch their imagination, build a DIY rocket and launch a mission to transform a faraway planet’s atmosphere, terrain and ecosystem for future habitation. After a high-energy Rover Race to collect important data and samples, they design and build inventions for navigating the intense conditions of their planet. In their Space Lab, they make new discoveries as they hatch a mysterious animal egg and encounter a dazzling crystal surprise.
Registration for 2026 Camp Invention hosted at Miller Elementary is now open. Click the link below to access the registration site.
2026 Camp Invention Registration Link
Interested in volunteering?
Students in need of volunteer hours - please consider helping at Camp Invention this summer. We are looking for 7th-12th grade students who are willing to assist elementary students in building and creating projects, as well as monitoring and escorting students around the building. The camp is July 10th-13th from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Students can sign up to help all week, or just on certain days. They can also help just in the morning or afternoon, or they can stay all day and earn 8 volunteer hours. We would love to have as many students as possible to help make this year's Camp Invention the BEST possible! If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out the Google Form linked below. Thank you!
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