National Camp Invention Program readies children for 21st Century through hands-on fun

  • March 12, 2010
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The Camp Invention Innovate program is coming to STAR Alternative School this summer. Through a unique partnership with the nonprofit Invent Now Kids, the East Central Ohio ESC is hosting this nationally acclaimed program for local children. During the Innovate program, children will save avatars by rebuilding a virtual world, bring robotic creatures to life, and explore fascinating molecular patterns found in the world around them. The week-long program employs inquiry-based activities in science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history and the arts that elicit creative thinking to solve real-world challenges. Children are immersed in imaginative play that both reinforces and supplements school-year learning. Children rotate through five integrated modules each day that are designed to provide them an opportunity to explore the unknown, tinker with ideas, and satisfy an innate sense of curiosity. Working together, children learn vital 21st century life skills such as problem solving and teamwork through hands-on activities disguised as fun. For returning host sites, children will not only rebuild a virtual world and act as entrepreneurs as they establish a new marketplace in the Hatched module and explore alternative energy to power their robotic creatures in the Power’d module, but also explore the surprising mathematical connections between soap bubbles and lightening bolts in the SMArt: Science, Math & Art module. Every program features the I Can Invent III module, where younger children take apart discarded household appliances and create fantasy inventions, while older children use the pieces and parts to build Rube Goldberg machines. This summer the Camp Invention program will be held at STAR Alternative School June 21-25. For more information or to register, visit www.campinvention.org or call 800-968-4332.


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