Bear Trek's Invention Playground

Pod Pals Cruise The Galaxy

Children follow the adventures of the Pod Pals — aliens that have come to Earth and need help returning to Planet P. As the story unfolds, children explore a variety of science concepts, from gravity to nutrition to the color spectrum, and are challenged to complete tasks to help their new alien friends.

Key Concepts & Skills: innovation, build

Robotic Aquatics

Diving into the latest ocean research, children create a habitat for their own aquatic friend. They design a tank featuring a newly designed and patented aquatic plant, and then they discover the power of symbiotic relationships and create a friend for their aquatic animal. Finally, they develop their own bio-inspired invention and deliver a pitch that is sure to make a splash.

Key Concepts & Skills: exploration, innovative thinking

Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Children embark on a journey filled with good vibrations to discover what makes sound, how it travels into our ears and how we can change it! Inspired by everything from the sounds in their own homes to underwater whale communication to animal ear shapes, children investigate, experiment and build their own sound-based inventions.

Key Concepts & Skills: fine-tune listening, memory

Solar Bots

Children explore circuitry, engineering, and cricket anatomy as they make and adopt their own solar-powered robotic cricket. Hands-on challenges lead them to consider the lives of real insects as they create customized habitats complete with cricket playgrounds, develop cricket-inspired musical inventions and outsmart predators.

Key Concepts & Skills: build and discover, problem-solving

Drop off your camper with their Camp Invention teachers, and they’ll start each day with games that encourage teamwork and spark creativity.

Half of the campers take on two creative challenges (camp invention modules) while the other campers do activities (such as pool, arts, sports, water games, etc). During modules, we will introduce your child to world-changing inventors, keep them active, and encourage their curiosity and creative thinking.

Half of the campers head outside — or to the gym — to play action-packed games while the others campers eat the lunch they’ve packed. Then they switch!

Half of the campers take on two creative challenges (camp invention modules) while the other campers do activities (such as pool, arts, sports, water games, etc). During modules, we will introduce your child to world-changing inventors, keep them active, and encourage their curiosity and creative thinking.

The day wraps up as campers wind down with problem-solving games. When you sign out your camper, they’ll tell you just how much fun they had at Camp Invention!