National Inventors Hall of Fame Activities what types of activities took place? it also promotes future generations of inventors by sponsoring the Invent Now Kids program, Camp Invention, what types of actives do these programs bring to kids? Camp Invention, founded in 1990, is a daytime summer camp for children, with program sites in 49 states. who founded the camp? I don't know.
what types of science projects are the kids doing in camp?
What types of science projects are the kids doing in Camp Invention?
In Alexandria, the National Inventors Hall of Fame operates a museum in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office building at 600 Dulany Street, with a gallery of digital portraits of the honorees, interactive kiosks and a theater. Admission is free.  In addition to the exhibits of the artifacts and documents from the collections of the Patent and Trademark Office, it also promotes future generations of inventors by sponsoring the Invent Now Kids program, Camp Invention, Club Invention and the Collegiate Inventors Competition as well as, with national partners, many ventures and special projects.  Camp Invention, founded in 1990, is a daytime summer camp for children, with program sites in 49 states. Camp Invention is the only nationally recognized summer program focused on creativity, innovation, real-world problem solving and the spirit of the invention.  The Collegiate Inventors Competition was created in 1990 to encourage college and university students to be creative and innovative with science, engineering and technology for dealing with the problems of the world. Since then, with the help from the sponsors, it has awarded more than $1 million to the winning students in two categories, undergraduate and graduate. In 2012, the first places were won with a delivery therapy for treating cancer and a way to facilitate suturing in abdominal surgery. Other finalists included the use of CT scanning and 3-D printing technology to replicate an amputee's lost hand, a low-profile shoulder brace that can be applied by the athletes themselves, and an electric motorcycle that runs on spheres instead of wheels. CANNOTANSWER
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The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also operates a museum in Alexandria, Virginia, sponsors educational programs, and a collegiate competition.

As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living inductees. Nominees must hold a U.S. patent of significant contribution to the U.S. welfare, and which advances science and useful arts. The 2020 class included 22 inventors.

History 
The National Inventors Hall of Fame was founded in 1973 on the initiative of H. Hume Mathews, then the chairman of the National Council of Patent Law Associations (now the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations). It was launched by Ed Sobey, who was also the first director. In 1974, it gained a major sponsor in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from Washington, D.C.

At first, the Hall was housed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., near the Washington National Airport but it soon needed more room at a more prominent location. A committee was formed in 1986 to find a new home for it. For a time, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the frontrunner. But in 1987, a patent attorney from Akron, Edwin "Ned" Oldham, the representative from the National Council of Patent Law Associations, led the drive to move the Hall to Akron. According to Maurice H. Klitzman, one of the founding members of the Board of Directors, because of the guaranteed financial support by the city of Akron that greatly exceeded any other community's proposal, the Board selected Akron as the new home. The construction of the new building was finished in 1995 and the Hall opened to the public with the name of the Inventure Place.

From the beginning, the Inventure Place was intended to be more than a science and technology museum and library. It was designed to double as an inventor's workshop and a national resource center for creativity. Designed by an architect from New York City, James Stewart Polshek, it was a stainless-steel building, shaped like a curving row of white sails, with five tiers of exhibits. One of the exhibits allowed the visitors to use computer programs for making animations and mechanisms for running laser-light shows.

But attendance did not meet the expectations and the museum never made a profit, although its related ventures and programs, such as Invent Now and Camp Invention, proved to be more successful. In 2002, its name was changed to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum. Six years later the Hall moved to Alexandria. Its former facility was converted to a specialty school for students in grades between 5th and 8th. It is now the National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM Middle School, a middle school for the Akron Public Schools.

Activities 

In Alexandria, the National Inventors Hall of Fame operates a museum in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office building at 600 Dulany Street, with a gallery of digital portraits of the honorees, interactive kiosks and a theater. Admission is free.

In addition to the exhibits of the artifacts and documents from the collections of the Patent and Trademark Office, it also sponsors Camp Invention, Club Invention, and the Collegiate Inventors Competition.

Camp Invention, founded in 1990, is a daytime summer camp for children, with program sites in 49 states. Camp Invention is the only nationally recognized summer program focused on creativity, innovation, real-world problem solving and the spirit of the invention.

The Collegiate Inventors Competition was created in 1990 to encourage college and university students to be creative and innovative with science, engineering, and technology for dealing with the problems of the world. Since then, with the help from the sponsors, it has awarded more than $1 million to the winning students in two categories, undergraduate and graduate. In 2012, the first places were won with a delivery therapy for treating cancer and a way to facilitate suturing in abdominal surgery. Other finalists included the use of CT scanning and 3-D printing technology to replicate an amputee's lost hand, a low-profile shoulder brace that can be applied by the athletes themselves, and an electric motorcycle that runs on spheres instead of wheels.

Inductees

See also
List of African-American inventors and scientists
NASA spinoff
Science and technology in the United States
Technological and industrial history of the United States
Timeline of United States inventions
Timeline of United States discoveries
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Yankee ingenuity

References
General
Akron Life and Leisure magazine, Baker Publishing, J. McGarrity, June 2003

Specific

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Halls of fame in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Akron, Ohio
Organizations established in 1973
Technology museums in the United States
Museums in Alexandria, Virginia
Science museums in Virginia
Biographical museums in Virginia
Space Camp Spain (also known as Space Camp Catalonia) is the only summer camp devoted for youths aged 7–12 in Spain hosted at Vilanova i la Geltrú. Participants are from all over Spain and official languages are Spanish and English.

There are other space or science-related camps for older young people, it is specially relevant the one organized by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (Aerospace Technology Institute of Spain). 

The Space Camp Initiative is not unique and exist in other countries the most relevant are the United States Space Camp and European Space Camp in Norway. Longer list of Space Camps can be found at list of summer camps.

Objectives
Provide a place for the kids to experiment and learn about the implications of living in Space and how that knowledge they achieve can help them here on earth. Values as tolerance and respect are taught, as well as the technological benefits from space technology ( E.g. Solar Cells, Water Purification Systems or Air Purification Systems )

The International Space Station is used as reference for the Space Camp not only or being one of the largest scientific and technological projects in history but also because it is an example of overcoming difficulties (international, intercultural, becoming then a great example for the youth.

Educational Approach
Space Camp Education program assumes the following hypothesis: the youths best learn if they need/want it for their entertainment, survival or compression of the environment. In other words, when they create their own interest toward the issue. So instead of forcing them to absorb lectures and lectures of knowledge and facts given by monitors, the monitors spend most of the time explaining the basic environment of the game of living in the Space, at this point the kids are themselves in order to feel the experience as real as much as possible and they start asking and learning how the technology, science, medicine and space vehicle should be.

Contents Astronaut Training
Space Camp Spain focuses on giving a hands-on experience into the field of aerospace engineering, launch vehicles, Space medicine and other space related disciplines. During the space camp the kids learn from professionals and becoming amateur rocket scientists and learning how astronauts live and work in space. The activities at the camp include experimentation, mock-up fabrication, maths lectures, presentations and organization of their mission all content adequate to their age.

Ultimately the goal of the camp is to simulate the astronaut training in order to teach the kids why science, engineering and human relations and tolerance is important for their future and for living in a multicultural and multidisciplinar society, like ours.

History
Space Camp Spain was initiated 2006 and after some time of organization and content creation the first space camp was in the summer of 2010. It was the university A3E Association of  the Polytechnic University of Catalonia that initiated the idea of a summer camp with this particular approach of role playing the kids as astronauts; making them realize what they need to survive in such hard environment called Space. Later in 2010 the International Space University Spanish Alumni association joint efforts and expertise to make the project real.

Staff & People Involved

Direction
Clara Salido,(Founder)
Xavier Alabart,(Founder)

Teachers & Monitors
Meritxell Viñas,
Gerard Gorostiza,
Ismael Tejero,
Marc Zaballa,
Georgina Sanchez,
Jesus Pablo Gonzalez, (Founder)
Roc Maymó, (Founder)
Miguel Octavio,
Nuria Blanco Delgado

Assistants
Jorge A. Soliz Torrico,
Jose I. Rojas,
Andrea Jaime Albalat

Space Camp Media Coverage

TV
 Space Camp in TV Catalan Channel (Language Catalan) (Video)

Radio
 Space Camp in Spanish National Radio (Spanish) (Audio)

Press
 Space Camp in EuropaPress Article (Spanish)

References
 INTA Space Camp 2010 Official Blog
 INTA Space Camp - Concurso (Spanish)
 EuropaPress Article (Spanish)
 COPE Radio (Spanish) (Audio)
 TV3 Televisió (Language Catalan) (Video)

External links
 Space Camp Spain Official Site

Space organizations
Spain Shaun Gallagher is an American author of four nonfiction books: 

 Experimenting with Babies (2013).
 Correlated (2014).
 Experiments for Newlyweds (2019).
 Experimenting with Kids (2020).

He is a former magazine and newspaper editor and runs the website Correlated.org, on which "Correlated" is based.

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid was published in October 2013 by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book adapts experiments from child-development research so parents can perform them on their babies. Gallagher was inspired to write the book by informal experimentation with his infant sons, whom he has called his "two favourite science projects".

Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things was published in July 2014, also by TarcherPerigee. The book uses data from Correlated.org to present bizarre correlations.  Freakonomics predicted in 2011 that Correlated "will launch a thousand graduate theses", and Pee-wee Herman encouraged his fans to "help further the cause of science" by contributing to Correlated.

Experiments for Newlyweds: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform With Your Spouse was published in April 2019 by Sourcebooks.  As in Experimenting With Babies, the book adapts experiments from published academic research, but this time, the focus is on experiments that couples can perform with each other. 

Experimenting With Kids: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Child Ages 2-5 was published in May 2020 by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House. While the projects in Experimenting With Babies, are for ages 0-2, the projects in Experimenting With Kids are for ages 2-5.

References

Bibliography
Gallagher, Shaun (2013). Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid. TarcherPerigee. .
Gallagher, Shaun (2014). Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things. TarcherPerigee. .
Gallagher, Shaun (2019). Experiments for Newlyweds: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform With Your Spouse. Sourcebooks. .
Gallagher, Shaun (2020). Experimenting With Kids: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Child Ages 2-5. TarcherPerigee. .

External links
Experimenting with Babies homepage
Experiments for Newlyweds homepage
Correlated homepage
Experimenting with Kids homepage

American science writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people