Albuquerque students receive grant to attend STEM camp

Twenty students in Albuquerque are going to have the opportunity to attend Camp Invention, a nationally recognized summer STEM program, thanks to a grant provided by technology company ABB.

Campers in Albuquerque will begin their Camp Invention experience Monday and will carry out their experiments throughout the week at St. Therese Catholic School.

ABB manufactures products for power generation, transmission and distribution, industrial automation, and robotics. The company donated $45,000 to ensure underserved schoolchildren in several cities across the country were able to attend Camp Invention programs this summer, including the Albuquerque students.

“Giving back to and supporting the communities where we work is very important to ABB,” Iana Lowder, ABB U.S. community relations manager, said in a press release. “We are happy to provide the Camp Invention experience in under-resourced areas to children who may not otherwise get to attend.”

Hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Camp Invention is a nationwide nonprofit summer camp for kindergarten through sixth grade students. Since 1990, Camp Invention has hosted more than 2.6 million children and more than 300,000 teachers.

Students participating in the camp, held in 1,000 locations across the country, take part in several STEM-focused experiments led by qualified local educators.

The theme of the 2024 program is “Illuminate” and will focus on unlocking the creativity of the camper and help them shine their brightest through several activities, including designing a custom glow box, using a do-it-yourself box to create their own custom inventions and creating their own light-up game board.