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BRIDGTON — The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity has received a grant that will enable 20 Bridgton-area children to attend Camp Invention, a program run by the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
The Brick & Beam Society, a giving circle within The United Way of Greater Portland, provided the grant money for the scholarships. This is the fifth year that the museum has been able to offer the scholarships for qualifying area children to attend the camp.
Camp Invention is a week-long summer camp for children going into grades kindergarten through six. A new curriculum is developed every year with customized activities that are child-centered and focused on creative thinking. This year’s all-new program, “EXPLORE,” is designed to inspire confidence and persistence, build essential STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills and improve reading skills. This is all accomplished through collaborative, creative problem-solving activities that offer so much hands-on fun and excitement, kids don’t even realize how much they’re learning, museum officials said.
Camp Invention is one of the ways that the museum seeks to support the cultural and intellectual life of the Bridgton community, in addition to encouraging the creative inventiveness that Rufus Porter himself sustained throughout his life.
Camp Invention will be offered in person at Stevens Brook Elementary School, July 11-15. To learn more, visit www.invent.org or call 800-968-4332.f
PHOTO: Camp Invention kids (Submitted photo)
