Camp Invention, a nationally recognized STEM-based day camp program, came to Northampton Borough Elementary School’s Siegfried building June 27-June 30. The event, which was founded in 1990 in partnership with the National Inventors Hall of Fame, has approximately 95,000 students from across the nation participate annually through 1400 local camps, which focus on science, technology, engineering and math.

This year’s Camp Invention, titled “Epic,” was open for students in first to sixth grade and allowed participants to engage in creative, science-based activities.

Four different modules were implemented throughout the camp.

The first, CrickoBot, allowed children to create their own solar-powered, robotic cricket.

I Can Invent: Maker Studio had participants develop their own idea for a new, technologically based invention (such as flying cars or robotic animals) and then bring their concept to life using household objects.

The Lab: Where Pigs Fly explored a variety of activities, including making their own slime and programming a robot.

Children also could work together to design their own theme park in the Epic Park module.

Megan Snyder, instructional support teacher at the Siegfried building, served as the director of this year’s Camp Invention, and several teachers and high schoolers also helped make sure the program ran smoothly. Discarded items, such as computer keyboards and calculators, were placed into a supply room where children could take them for use in their projects.