Cedar Summer Camps

Inspire a passion for science in your child! New activities every year, over 40 locations and four different kinds of Camp Invention programs in Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota.

Kids participate in each of these activities every day:

Saving Sludge City – Learn how to clean up pollution and build safe landfills, and design a “green” city
Imagination Point: Ride Physics - Experiment with physics as you build roller coasters and other amusement park rides
Problem-Solving on Planet Zak - Crash land on an alien planet and try to survive
I Can Invent: Edison's Workshop - Work with real tools to take apart a small mechanical device, use the parts and other materials to build an invention and become America's next great inventor!
Game On: Power Play - Stretch your muscles, explore new games, and add your own twist to indoor and outdoor high-energy challenges!


Directed and taught by qualified local educators, Camp Invention is a national STEM enrichment program from the nonprofit Invent Now in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Activities also focus on developing 21st Century learning skills such as teamwork, critical thinking skills, decision-making, creative problem-solving, and working through failure.

Dates: June 20-24, 2011
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
For students entering grades 1-6

Registration fee of $215 includes a camp T-shirt
Discounts of up to $35 off; check our current offer.

Inspire a passion for science in your child! New activities every year, over 40 locations and four different kinds of Camp Invention programs in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota!

Kids participate in each of these activities every day:

Magnetropolis – Design a magnet-powered city and build a maglev train.
Inventeureka - Join Team Inventeureka and mash up ideas to build wacky and humorous
widget inventions that morph into amazing, new prototypes!
I Can Invent: Balloon Burst - Work with real tools to take apart a small mechanical device, use the parts and other materials to build a Rube Goldberg machine!
Action and Adventure Games – Use upcycled materials and teamwork to create your own exciting new games!

Directed and taught by qualified local educators, Camp Invention is a national STEM enrichment program from the nonprofit Invent Now. Activities also focus on developing 21st Century learning skills such as teamwork, critical thinking skills, decision-making, creative problem-solving, and working through failure.

Dates: June 11 - 15, 2012
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
For children entering grades 1-6

Registration fee of $215 includes a camp T-shirt
Discounts of up to $35 off; check our current offer.

Camp Multimedia (CMM) is a digital media summer camp for high school students based at the University of Northern Iowa, will expand to two weeks this summer, and will offer a residential experience option with overnight stays in UNI dormitories.

The camp offers intense instruction from UNI media professors and industry professionals. Using Photoshop, Flash, After Effects, and digital video editing, students learn how to integrate images, 2-D and 3-D animation, and video together in professional-level projects. Besides a week of digital media production, students have the opportunity to learn basic multimedia programming skills during a second week of CMM. Taught by computer science professors at UNI, students learn how computers represent digital images and sounds, manipulate media and create customized effects.
Camp Multimedia costs $350 for each week-long experience, not including the room and board option (add $325). Participants may also receive one hour of UNI college credit