Philly PAL Kids Gear Up For School With Camp Invention
By Kristen Johanson
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Philadelphia Police Athletic League hosted Camp Invention in Fairmount for grade-school students, to prepare them for the upcoming school year.
The week-long camp focuses on teaching kids how to create structures using, well, junk.
Director of Education for Philly's PAL, Chase Trimmer says 65 kids from PAL centers across the city became engineers for a week.
"They're learning to apply science, technology, engineering, and math skills." says Trimmer. "During the summer, it's almost time to get ready to go back to school. So we are making it fun, but also trying to get them ready to go back to school."
So, what did 6-year-old Victor make?
"I built a skateboard."
His aunt, Lesley Reyes says the activities help prepare the kids for a new year of school.
"They had water fights, they built rockets, and they build the maze out of computer pieces, they create their own stuff." says Reyes. "All the kids get along together, and they make new friends from all the other PAL centers."