Ball Chatham Community Unit School District 5 issued the following announcement on July 31.
In partnership with the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the Ball-Chatham School District is hosting "Camp Invention" to over 115 children entering grades 1-6. (Click here to see a slideshow of students learning, as the week progresses.)
It’s an exciting, weeklong summer adventure with lessons that explore connections between science, technology, engineering and innovation. Children will work together to seek solutions to real-world problems and sharpen critical 21st century learning skills while rotating through several fascinating modules.
Here is how young innovators are spending their time:
Dreaming up and designing their very own futuristic smart home filled with gadgets, LEDs, technology and innovation
Using tools to take apart robotic dogs and compare their inner mechanics to the anatomy and physiology of a real dog
Designing tracks for their Optibots to follow while exploring different modes of transportation
Exploring chemistry, non-Newtonian fluids and magnetism as they investigate magnetic slime
Ball-Chatham teachers are facilitating program modules and enthusiastic high school students are serving as Leadership Interns, ensuring that one staff member is in place for every eight children.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Ball Chatham Community Unit School District 5
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