Camp Invention
The South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM) is pleased to announce it will serve as a host site for a popular summer enrichment program known as "Camp Invention." This unique day camp will be held July 14-18, 2008, for students entering grades one through six.
Camp Invention is a week-long educational experience that fosters creativity, teamwork, inventive thinking and science literacy among elementary school children. Camp goers work on various projects through which they learn scientific concepts such as buoyancy, probability and statistics. GSSM is just one of more than 900 sites in 47 states hosting the program this year.
Camp Invention began in 1990 as an education outreach program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation in Akron, Ohio, with support from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. By 1995, the program was able to go nationwide. This summer, more than 60,000 children are anticipated to participate in Camp Invention.
The program has received rave reviews from participating educators, parents and children - giving it an approval rating of more than 90 percent. To learn more about Camp Invention, call 800.968.4332 or visit www.campinvention.org. You may also contact the GSSM Outreach Office at 843.383.3901 ext. 3941.
