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Camp Galileo offers hands-on projects that include STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, along with outdoor games. Camp traditions at Camp Galileo include silly songs, songs, skits, silly traditions, face painting, and pie throwing.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and has grown to operate 60+ camps across five regions, serving 90+ communities. The program has served over 570,000 young innovators and awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Camp Galileo’s curriculum is STEAM-focused, includes hands-on STEAM projects and outdoor play, and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach with an imagination-sparking curriculum. The camp’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Camp Galileo’s mission states that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world, and that its camps aim to offer that opportunity to all regardless of personal or social circumstances. The organization reports working actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences, and welcoming all. Camp Galileo also works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
The camp reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, with many staff returning year after year. Camp Galileo consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills learned at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parent feedback from multiple locations in 2025 mentions staff and curriculum, hands-on work, creative projects, enthusiastic and encouraging counselors, and kids coming home excited, happy, and chanting camp cheers. Parents from Alameda, Berkeley, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle describe friendly staff, organized and safe check-in and check-out with photo ID checks, and children who want to return to Camp Galileo in future years.
Last updated August 10, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and has grown to operate 60+ camps across five regions, serving 90+ communities. The program has served over 570,000 young innovators and awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Camp Galileo’s curriculum is STEAM-focused, includes hands-on STEAM projects and outdoor play, and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach with an imagination-sparking curriculum. The camp’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Camp Galileo’s mission states that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world, and that its camps aim to offer that opportunity to all regardless of personal or social circumstances. The organization reports working actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences, and welcoming all. Camp Galileo also works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
The camp reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, with many staff returning year after year. Camp Galileo consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills learned at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parent feedback from multiple locations in 2025 mentions staff and curriculum, hands-on work, creative projects, enthusiastic and encouraging counselors, and kids coming home excited, happy, and chanting camp cheers. Parents from Alameda, Berkeley, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle describe friendly staff, organized and safe check-in and check-out with photo ID checks, and children who want to return to Camp Galileo in future years.
Last updated August 10, 2026.
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