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Camp Galileo features hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, and building projects. Camp days include outdoor play and outdoor games along with songs, skits, camp cheers, silly songs, face painting, and pie throwing. Campers spend time building things and taking part in a variety of STEAM projects.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: Save $30 per camp week, now through 5/6; discount automatically applied at checkout.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs. Its curriculum is STEAM-focused, age-appropriate, and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with collaborative design challenges and a focus on critical thinking, teamwork, and iteration skills. The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and is described as imagination-sparking and aimed at unlocking innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges. A study by the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that Galileo kids internalize skills like collaboration, persistence, and resilience and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Staff are described as a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and are characterized as passionate, nurturing, and inspiring while cultivating resilience and creativity. Outdoor play, songs, skits, and silly traditions are part of every day, and the camp mascot is a rubber chicken. Galileo operates 60+ camps across five regions, has served over 570,000 campers and awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and has also been described as having served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country engaging K–10th graders. Galileo works actively to break down barriers and build up supports by increasing access, valuing differences, and welcoming all, and also works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Galileo consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards.
Parent feedback includes comments that kids love the counselors, projects, games, and activities, and look forward to returning every summer. Parents describe kids coming home thinking more independently and deeply, having fun building things and making new friends, and experiencing an exciting educational environment with a lot of engagement and learning. Families report that kids loved all the building projects, are still singing songs from camp, and came home happy and chanting camp cheers. Some parents describe Camp Galileo as a fun, inclusive environment that welcomes all kids, and as a camp experience that builds community, includes amazing projects, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: Save $30 per camp week, now through 5/6; discount automatically applied at checkout.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs. Its curriculum is STEAM-focused, age-appropriate, and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with collaborative design challenges and a focus on critical thinking, teamwork, and iteration skills. The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and is described as imagination-sparking and aimed at unlocking innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges. A study by the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that Galileo kids internalize skills like collaboration, persistence, and resilience and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Staff are described as a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and are characterized as passionate, nurturing, and inspiring while cultivating resilience and creativity. Outdoor play, songs, skits, and silly traditions are part of every day, and the camp mascot is a rubber chicken. Galileo operates 60+ camps across five regions, has served over 570,000 campers and awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and has also been described as having served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country engaging K–10th graders. Galileo works actively to break down barriers and build up supports by increasing access, valuing differences, and welcoming all, and also works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Galileo consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards.
Parent feedback includes comments that kids love the counselors, projects, games, and activities, and look forward to returning every summer. Parents describe kids coming home thinking more independently and deeply, having fun building things and making new friends, and experiencing an exciting educational environment with a lot of engagement and learning. Families report that kids loved all the building projects, are still singing songs from camp, and came home happy and chanting camp cheers. Some parents describe Camp Galileo as a fun, inclusive environment that welcomes all kids, and as a camp experience that builds community, includes amazing projects, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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