Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø

May 18, 2018
18-132

Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø Welcomes Future Innovators to Campus June 11-15

VALDOSTA — Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø has partnered with the National Inventors Hall of Fame to present Camp Invention June 11-15. Creative and innovative dreamers in the elementary grades are invited to attend this fun, educational event.

Hosted by Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø’s Department of Mathematics, Camp Invention is the only nationally recognized nonprofit elementary enrichment program inspired by the brightest thinkers around — the National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees. All activities are designed to be fun, hands-on, challenging, and age-appropriate, with a focus on encouraging problem-solving, teamwork, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Camp Invention attendees will spend the week rotating through a series of activities designed to encourage creative thinking, teambuilding skills, and a passion for innovation.

In Robotic Pet Vet, attendees will use tools, circuitry, biology, and physiology to build and personalize a take-home robotic dog, and they will apply design and engineering principles to construct a one-of-a-kind dog park.

In Mod My Mini Mansion, children will dream up and design their very own futuristic smart home filled with gadgets and cutting-edge technology. The mini mansion will allow them to explore renewable energy sources, binary coding, and architecture concepts.

Armed with the futuristic Optibot, a small self-driving robot, children will also discover aerial, aquatic, and land transportation technology. They will design tracks for their take-home bots and learn how sensors are used in autonomous vehicles.

Camp Invention attendees will invent something new every day, from a dancing dinosaur to a cupcake catapult, and explore fun realities, such as the chemistry of magnetic slime, as they experience what it is like to be a physicist, engineer, and entrepreneur. Through collaboration, discovery, and invention prototyping, they will solve real-world issues.

This is Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø’s seventh year presenting Camp Invention to the Valdosta-Lowndes County community. Activities will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Nevins Hall. Registration is $225 per child and includes all supplies and a T-shirt. Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø to register.

Camp Invention is appropriate for children entering kindergarten and first through sixth grades during the 2018-2019 academic year. Children are grouped by ages, and all classes are taught by certified teachers. There is a five-to-one ratio of campers to workers.

Please contact Dr. Denise Taunton Reid, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø, at (229) 333-5784 or dtreid@valdosta.edu to learn more. Discounts are available to children of Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø faculty, staff, and students and to sibling groups attending camp together.

On the Web:

  • Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø Facebook
  • Google+
  • Flickr
Newsroom