Camp Galileo Lafayette
Lafayette Elementary School, 950 Moraga Rd, Lafayette, CA 94549
About
Camp Galileo Lafayette offers hands-on STEAM projects, design challenges, and collaborative activities along with outdoor play and outdoor games. Campers take part in songs, silly songs, skits, cheers, flash mobs, face painting, pie throwing, lanyards, crafts, Water Day stations, engineering launchers, engineering golf-courses, and a mini Olympics. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run June 8–July 24 with a 9am–3pm camp day and optional 8–9am AM Care and 3–6pm PM Care
• Price: Superhero Adventure $595; Animal Extravaganza $525
Camp Galileo Lafayette uses a curriculum created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10, with Nebula and Star campers working on 1–2 day age-appropriate projects individually and in small groups. Supernova campers complete small group challenges and longer individual projects, middle school Meteors campers work on one individual project throughout the week, and Counselors in Training engage in leadership development activities and own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. Campers build creative confidence by turning their ideas into individual, polished STEAM projects to take home each week and collaborate in small groups on daily design challenges.
Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country and operates summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards.
Parent feedback about Galileo programs includes comments that kids come home thinking more independently and deeply, that the camp environment is joyful, and that campers enjoy counselors, projects, games, and activities. Other parents describe their children having fun building things, making new friends, and staying engaged, and note that their kids are still singing camp songs at home. Additional testimonials describe the environment as fun and inclusive, with kids coming home happy and chanting camp cheers, and refer to Galileo as “the perfect camp experience” where kids build community, work on projects related to a topic, play games, and experience “lots of silliness.”
Last updated March 17, 2026.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run June 8–July 24 with a 9am–3pm camp day and optional 8–9am AM Care and 3–6pm PM Care
• Price: Superhero Adventure $595; Animal Extravaganza $525
Camp Galileo Lafayette uses a curriculum created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10, with Nebula and Star campers working on 1–2 day age-appropriate projects individually and in small groups. Supernova campers complete small group challenges and longer individual projects, middle school Meteors campers work on one individual project throughout the week, and Counselors in Training engage in leadership development activities and own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. Campers build creative confidence by turning their ideas into individual, polished STEAM projects to take home each week and collaborate in small groups on daily design challenges.
Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country and operates summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards.
Parent feedback about Galileo programs includes comments that kids come home thinking more independently and deeply, that the camp environment is joyful, and that campers enjoy counselors, projects, games, and activities. Other parents describe their children having fun building things, making new friends, and staying engaged, and note that their kids are still singing camp songs at home. Additional testimonials describe the environment as fun and inclusive, with kids coming home happy and chanting camp cheers, and refer to Galileo as “the perfect camp experience” where kids build community, work on projects related to a topic, play games, and experience “lots of silliness.”
Last updated March 17, 2026.
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