Students in the Minster area are spending part of their summer learning to become future innovators.
Camp Invention is a nationally recognized STEM program that launched its Minster program last summer. The students spend a majority of the camp taking on new challenges every day, such as making robots and smart homes. Creating these projects teach the kids what it is like to be a physicist, engineer, and entrepreneur. Campers range in age from third to sixth grade, but many of them are finding potential career choices.
Camp Director Wendi Moorman explains that the camp is giving the kids real-world skills.
"They're really building on their creative thinking, problem-solving skills and they get to do that in every single class and learning about failure and that you might fail over and over again but eventually figure out how to make something work and that failure is just part of the process."
The camp runs through Friday, but the new passions that the kids are finding will last a lifetime.
