June 18, 2018
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威斯康辛州立大学的发明夏令营给孩子们梦想和创造的自由
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2018年发明营的参与者能够与机器狗一起工作，并在此过程中学习工程和生物学。
发明营帮助孩子们发现科学、技术、工程和数学领域，通过建造像这个配备智能技术的迷你豪宅这样的东西。 |
VALDOSTA — The sounds of excited elementary schoolers filled classrooms in Nevins Hall June 11-15 as 美高梅博彩 hosted its seventh Camp Invention, a weeklong summer program that gives students in kindergarten through sixth grade the chance to dream, innovate, and create in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
在一间教室里，参与者建造了配备智能技术和尖端设备的迷你豪宅。 年轻的露营者在一个房间里扮演未来的兽医，与机器狗一起工作，并在此过程中学习工程和生物学原理。
“This camp makes them think outside of the box,” said Alisha Sirmans, a Lanier County pre-k teacher who has taught at Camp Invention for the last five years. “It exposes them to a variety of different subjects and lets them do things that they normally wouldn’t get to do in a regular classroom.
“Here things are hands-on. 他们可以学习，他们可以自由。 They’re not confined to a chair or stuck taking a test. 他们可以把东西拆开再组装起来。 They get to come up with ideas and then bring those ideas to life.”
Dr. Denise Reid, professor of mathematics and coordinator of vs上’s Camp Invention, said the program’s activities are essential to future growth in STEM fields.
“The world is changing, and we need to be able to move forward with it. If you want to have people who can design this technology in the future and build these things, you need to have kids who are interested in it, and you need to foster that and nurture it early on.”
发明营成为许多孩子和他们的兄弟姐妹年复一年参加的家庭活动，准备发现创造和创新的新世界。
Reid’s daughters, Rena, 17, and Callie, 15, both attended Camp Invention for many years and now participate as counselors, and her son Jacob, 12, attended for all seven years and was a counselor-in-training this summer. Additionally, Dr. Reid’s husband, Lamar, who is a teacher at Atkinson County Middle School, has volunteered to help direct the camp for the past seven years.
Jacob said that even after all his years with the program, “there’s still so much more to explore at Camp Invention.”
vs上’s Department of Mathematics hosts Camp Invention annually in partnership with the National Inventors Hall of Fame. It is the only nationally recognized nonprofit elementary enrichment program inspired by the brightest thinkers around — the National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees. 所有的活动都设计得有趣，动手，具有挑战性，适合年龄，重点是鼓励解决问题，团队合作，创新和创业精神。
“发明营”的参与者每天都会发明一些新东西，从会跳舞的恐龙到纸杯蛋糕弹射器，他们还会探索有趣的现实，比如磁性黏液的化学成分，同时体验成为物理学家、工程师和企业家的感觉。 通过协作、发现和发明原型，他们能够解决现实世界的问题。
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