 Camp Invention is being held this week at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. The camp focuses on the STEM fields and aims to inspire local students to become future inventors. Our reporter Rachel Johnson has more. Camp Invention is a nationally recognized science, technology and engineering summer enrichment camp program. Every day the kids get a chance to work in teams to build new inventions or to create prototypes that solve problems. The kids really get excited when they get to put their own touches on their inventions and create things that they think would solve those real world problems that we are having in our world today. The camp is for students and train kindergarten through sixth grade and follows a curriculum inspired by the world's greatest inventors. This year it's it's all about technology. We're learning about octobots which are little sensor driven robots and the kids are learning how sensors affect daily life and how in the future we might have things like driverless cars that are all run by sensor. The students rotate to five classes each day and participate in activities such as designing and building robotic dogs controlling their own self-driving robots and other fun science-related games. The goal of the activity was to be the first team to get all the shaving cream off the tarp using the power of the water. My favorite part of the camp is where you get to bring where you get to bring your stuff in and you get to make build inventions and it's really fun. The camp which was founded in 1990 has served more than 1.3 million children throughout the country many of them going on to be leadership interns and teachers. I like going year from year and I see the same kids and I watch them kind of grow up and learn new things like just watching them do their stuff like that was us last year the year before that. While the camp aims to be a week of fun it also has the goal of introducing young kids to the STEM fields and the opportunities that may lie ahead for them. The biggest thing is that that's what our society is going to probably be needing in the future is jobs in those areas of science technology engineering and math and so this is preparing them for college and for those classes in high school that might be a little tougher but for the real world those are the jobs that are going to be out there. They build and they invent and they create and they take apart and so there's just there's so many aspects to it that are wonderful I just I would love that every child got to experience that. Reporting from Brainerd, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. The camp has approximately 110 campers each summer for more information on the camp you can visit the story on our website at lptv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.