2025 Camp Invention Inspires Kids to Explore Summer STEM Fun Through Optical Illusions and GPS

Leading Summer Camp Makes Inventing Relatable and Fun

NORTH CANTON, Ohio — Oct. 29, 2024 — For more than three decades, Camp Invention^® has developed confidence and problem-solving skills in young innovators through authentic, hands-on STEM activities. In the newly announced 2025 program, Discover, campers will discover the science behind optical illusions, build a claw machine, go on the ultimate road trip, and investigate penguins and Antarctica!

Camp Invention, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame^® in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, provides a unique experience for children to make discoveries about the importance of intellectual property while exploring, creating and designing. Camp promotes STEM learning; builds leadership, perseverance and resourcefulness; and encourages entrepreneurship — in an exciting and engaging environment.

“Camp Invention is the camp my child looks forward to every summer,” said the parent of a recent camper. “It gets her excited to learn and get creative — and I love hearing the lessons and stories she comes home with each day!”

Each year, the program features a new curriculum inspired by some of our nation’s greatest innovators — the National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees. For 2025, the Discover curriculum features exclusive video content from these Inductees encouraging children to be confident in their ideas and explore their ability to innovate. These hands-on experiences include:

• In Control^™: Campers take control of their innovation journey as they head out on the ultimate road trip. From assembling a custom control panel with a transmitter and receiver, to creating a prototype of their own artificial intelligence-inspired bobblehead assistant, they invent their way around every bump and twist in the road.
   
• Illusion Workshop^™: Children discover the mesmerizing world of illusions, where things are not always as they appear. Through hands-on activities and experiments, they go behind the scenes of the tech tricks used in theme parks, animated films and theater.
   
• Claw Arcade^™: Campers use their creativity and engineering skills to construct a functional Claw Arcade out of cardboard. They explore physics in easy-to-reach ways as they make hands-on discoveries about the science behind claw machines.
   
• Penguin Launch^™: Children embark on an eco-expedition to investigate penguins and the ice and snow of Antarctica. Along the way, they discover the fascinating connections between the technology and training used to explore both Antarctica and outer space.

Local programs are facilitated and taught by qualified local educators. Annually, Camp Invention programs benefit 130,000 children and partner with 2,500 schools and districts across the nation. Educators and school districts can partner with Camp Invention in 2025 by visiting invent.org/camp.

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, our education programs have served more than 2.6 million children, and 309,000 teachers and Leadership Interns. For more information, visit invent.org/programs/camp-invention.

CONTACT:

Ken Torisky 
National Inventors Hall of Fame 
[email protected] 
234-901-6085