The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity in Bridgton received a grant that will enable 20 qualifying 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 funds for these scholarships. This is the fifth year that the museum has obtained scholarships for area children to attend the camp, according to a news release from the museum.

Camp Invention is a week-long summer camp for children going into grades kindergarten through six. A new curriculum is developed every year with stimulating, 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, children don’t even realize how much they’re learning, the museum notes.

Camp Invention is scheduled to be offered in person from July 11-15 at Stevens Brook Elementary School.

Camp Invention is one way 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.

To learn more, visit invent.org or call 800-968-4332.

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