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Camp Galileo features hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor play, and building projects. Campers take part in outdoor games, songs, skits, silly traditions, face painting, pie throwing, design challenges, and other building things activities.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates 60+ camps across five regions. The program has served over 570,000 campers and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Staff are described as a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and the camp mascot is a rubber chicken. Camp Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. The program’s curriculum is described as an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that focus on developing critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills. Every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is described as a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills. 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. The organization states a belief that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world and that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn.
Galileo works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. The organization describes a deep commitment to building communities that offer innovation opportunities to all regardless of personal or social circumstances and works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all. The program also describes having passionate staff that nurtures and inspires campers.
Parent feedback from 2024 includes comments that kids love the camp, come home thinking more independently and deeply, and look forward to returning every summer. Parents describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games, and activities that their children enjoy, and mention that their children had fun building things, making new friends, and engaging in building projects. Families also mention camp songs, camp cheers, a fun and inclusive environment, and describe the camp as well run and well staffed, with plans to return for longer future sessions. One family comment states that it feels like the perfect camp experience, mentioning community, amazing projects, learning about the project topics, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated June 20, 2026.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates 60+ camps across five regions. The program has served over 570,000 campers and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Staff are described as a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and the camp mascot is a rubber chicken. Camp Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. The program’s curriculum is described as an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that focus on developing critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills. Every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is described as a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills. 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. The organization states a belief that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world and that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn.
Galileo works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. The organization describes a deep commitment to building communities that offer innovation opportunities to all regardless of personal or social circumstances and works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all. The program also describes having passionate staff that nurtures and inspires campers.
Parent feedback from 2024 includes comments that kids love the camp, come home thinking more independently and deeply, and look forward to returning every summer. Parents describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games, and activities that their children enjoy, and mention that their children had fun building things, making new friends, and engaging in building projects. Families also mention camp songs, camp cheers, a fun and inclusive environment, and describe the camp as well run and well staffed, with plans to return for longer future sessions. One family comment states that it feels like the perfect camp experience, mentioning community, amazing projects, learning about the project topics, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated June 20, 2026.
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