Nothing is beyond students’ grasp at the annual Camp Invention summer enrichment camp.
How else could you explain that in a week’s time, Columbus students from kindergarten through sixth grade are designing a small self-driving robot, plan their own futuristic smart home and set up a veterinary clinic for robotic puppies.
Camp Invention returned to St. Bartholomew Catholic School this week for the fourth straight summer to promote interest in STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math. It ends today.
Enrollment — open to students from any school — reached its 120-camper capacity, the highest ever turnout for the Columbus camp, said Shannon Royer, a St. Bartholomew third grade science teacher who was in charge of leading the camp.
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