OTTAWA, Ohio (WLIO) — Summer break hasn’t stopped students at Saints Peter and Paul School in Ottawa from learning.
This week, students in grades one through six participated in Camp Invention, a national STEM program focused on hands-on learning in science, technology, engineering, and math. Each day, students built, problem-solved, and designed their own inventions.
“Each project is different and unique. You stop in and ask them about their project, and they just go and tell you a lot of the things that they've made,” said camp director Jodi Stechschulte.
Campers created homemade claw machines and Morse code transmitters using everyday items.
“This is my claw machine, and it has prizes, and it’s supposed to be a working claw,” said Ralph Pothast, 9.
“We’ve been making this claw machine where you can actually pick prizes up,” said Lauren Masters, 9. “My favorite thing that I made is this little boba.”
“So, this is the receiver. It messages from the transmitter,” said Laina Hovest, 9. “There’s buttons that you push to send codes, like dashes and dots.”
“It’s a receiver and a transmitter,” said Kylee Gerding, 10. “So, the receiver picks up signals from the transmitter, and you can press the buttons for either a dot or a dash that mean letters to send words.”
Organizers say the camp is a fun way to keep young minds active and ready to jump back into school.
