An inventor credited with making flight safer for air travelers will work with 40 young children during Camp Invention next week in Covington.

Donald Bateman, inventor in the 1970s of the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), the technology that detects navigational errors which lead to accidents with aircraft, will visit the camp scheduled for Aug. 11-15 at St. John the Baptist Church.

Camp Invention is a national subsidiary of the not-for-profit National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. Begun in 1990, the program is a hands-on educational effort focused on science, math, technology, engineering and the arts.

Bateman, a Seattle-area resident, has agreed to participate in Camp Invention’s newest pilot curriculum and has lent his ideas to a curriculum based partly on comic-book superheroes. Participants will learn how many of the things that their favorite superheroes do can be actually replicated.

Camp participants are in first through sixth grades.

Bateman is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.