For ten years, Camp Invention has offered District 118 students going into first through sixth grades a chance to have a week where they create, design, and invent things. DHS teacher Lori Woods has been leading the way at this year’s edition this week at Meade Park Elementary, along with lots of helpers; maybe even some future teachers, such as high school and college students working as leadership interns and instructors.
AUDIO: The Army Education Outreach Program, AEOP, has funded a camp for over 100 kids. They’ve been busy inventing and creating and making robots; and learning about pop-up and entrepreneurship and all kinds of things this week. The basic structure stays the same, but every year they have a different theme and a different curriculum. So this year they have “mimic-bots,” and so they’ve been designing their own little robots.
Camp Invention wraps up at Meade Park Elementary Friday (June 23rd) afternoon, when parents are brought in for a demonstration of what the youngsters have been working on.