Fredonia Elementary School hosted the Camp Invention program for children from local area schools.

Directed by teacher Sarah Korzeniewski, the week-long summer adventure offered campers experiences to sharpen critical 21st-century learning modules that were instructed by teachers Daniel Kenzie, Maggie Snyder and Jill Putnam. Leadership interns Jillian Valvo, Kelsey Vianese and Lauren Hill assisted students as they tackled tasks with assistance from Counselors in Training Jacob Helmer, Trevor Malkowski, Ashley Schroeder and Joel Gloff.

The “Mission Space Makers” module taught children to locate and prepare a new planet for human habitation. Among other tasks, children designed inventions to transform the atmosphere, terrain and ecosystem of an exoplanet.

During “Have A Blast!” children flung, flew and floated through high-energy air battles while using physics to boost their advantage. Campers created duct tape inventions to launch a business and presented their products to mock investors.

The “Operation Keep Out” module taught children to make spy gadget alarm boxes to keep treasures secure. They decoded notes written in invisible ink to find missing tools, used spy glasses to catch a toy thief, and discovered that both spies and engineers write in secret codes.