Camp Galileo includes hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor play and outdoor games. Campers take part in songs, skits, face painting, pie throwing, lanyards, crafts, team-building challenges, design challenges, Water Day stations, flash mobs, engineering launchers, engineering golf-courses and a mini Olympics. Counselors in Training participate in leadership development activities and own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. • Ages: 5–15 years old • Schedule: Camp day 9am–3pm with optional AM Care 8–9am and optional PM Care 3–6pm, running June 8–July 10 • Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks with code COUNTDOWN25; Superhero Adventure $595 Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun, and every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills. Camp Galileo serves kids in grades K–10 and was created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers. Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002, and since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country, including over 570,000 campers with more than 49,000 scholarships awarded. Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken. The mission of Camp Galileo is: “We believe that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.” A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives. Campers take a nut-free snack break during the camp day. Camp Galileo works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Parent feedback includes: “My kids always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before” (2024 Laguna Niguel Parent) and “Camp Galileo is such a joyful environment! My child loves the counselors, projects, and all the games and activities. He looks forward to returning every summer” (2024 Sunnyvale Parent). Other parents report that their children had “a lot of fun building things and making new friends” with “a lot of engagement and learning” (2024 Palmdale Galileo X Parent), and that their kids “loved all the building projects and are still singing songs from camp” and that they “will be back next summer and for longer” (2024 Manhattan Beach Parent). Families also describe a “Fun, inclusive environment” where “Kids came home happy and chanting camp cheers” and “the perfect camp experience... it builds community, the kids work on amazing projects and learn about that topic, they play fun games, and counselors make sure there’s lots of silliness.” Last updated June 14, 2026.

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