STEM summer program coming to Thunder Mountain High School
Camp Invention, a STEM summer program, is coming to Thunder Mountain High School the week of June 6, 2016. Camp Invention is a week long day camp program, which will teach grades first-sixth through hands-on problem solving, using science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Camp Invention provides an opportunity for young minds to exercise their creativity and imagination in ways they don’t normally get to in the classroom. Program participants get to develop new skills as they build prototypes, take things apart, explore different types of technology and much more.
This year’s Camp Invention curriculum is called Epic, inspired by some of our nation’s leading minds including experienced educators, Inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and developed in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Epic features hands-on modules like CrickoBot, where campers construct and personalize a DIY solar-powered cricket and a unique habitat; Epic Park, where campers work in teams to design an eco-adventure park; I Can Invent: Maker Studio, where campers brainstorm product ideas and build original prototypes using real tools and components found in everyday devices; and The Lab: Where Pigs Fly, where children can discover the science of slime, demolition, electronic sound, giant squid and coding.
Camp Invention is supported by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a product of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
