Camp Invention

 Summer is just around the corner! Keep your kids involved in learning and fun!

Camp Invention will be hosted in Washington for the 14th year! 

June 10-14, 2024

9AM-3PM (with an Extended Day option available)

Held at Stewart Elementary

For Kids that will enter Kindergarten - 6th grade next school year (will be in similar age groups all week)

Local teachers will instruct and high school students will be with groups! 

Kids will:
*Develop their own sports ball and customize a light-up game as they explore athletics, design and innovation

*Discover the science of light through illuminating inventions and fluorescent animals, then building a one-of-a-kind Glow Box using circuitry and ultraviolet lights to take home!

*Embark on a global operation to tackle water challenges around the world, and will create a robotic lab-on-wheels

*Mold and shape their own ideas into a brand new invention using everyday items and a DIY toolbox

Register at www.invent.org 

Promo Codes to use:

FUN15 to get $15 off by 5/16

SIBLOVE30 for $30 off 2 siblings 

SIBLOVE40 for $40 off 3 or more siblings

Cost is $275, but I also have MULTIPLE partial scholarships that ANYONE can request! Don't hesitate to ask! They have been given for our local kids to use to attend camp! 

email Janet Conrad @jconrad@washington.k12.ia.us

Contact me!
Janet Conrad, Director of Camp Invention

jconrad@washington.k12.ia.us

Field Trip to West Branch!

All 5th graders are going to West Branch to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum!!

Rosa Parks and Friends

Here is what the flyer says- "Take a journey through time with Rosa Parks, as she introduces your class to some of the most remarkable figures in history, including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and, of course, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. An important story for your class, this show gives a remarkable view of the challenges met by these amazing Black Americans. This historical journey will delight and inspire audiences with the triumphant power of the human spirit shown by these true heroes of history."

Valentine's Day Party

Our party is next Friday, February 9th. Here is a link to the sheet that went home. It had an error in it. I typed one student twice and accidentally excluded Jeslynn. Sorry, Jeslynn!

Valentine's Party Note

Holiday Party

 Here is the note for our Holiday party coming up on December 21st!

Club Invention

We are excited to offer CLUB INVENTION for kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades! This is a club through the National Inventors Hall of Fame (same organization as our summer Camp Invention) and led by local teachers. Club Invention will be held four Mondays and Tuesdays in December: 4, 5, 11, and 12th from right after school until 5:00PM. Students that attend will need picked up at 5:00 (no transportation provided). 

Cost is $59 per student.

The curriculum we will be doing is called E.Z. Science and kids will conduct experiments, solve puzzles and create games. They will be doing hands-on science learning! 

Kids in grades 3rd, 4th, and 5th: Alicia Andrews will lead this group, held at Lincoln Elementary, and open to ONLY 22 kids total! Register at the link below. If you get put on a Wait List, I will let you know if space opens up!

3rd, 4th and 5th Graders Link: https://invent-web.ungerboeck.com/programsearch/moreinfo.aspx?event=42850