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Camp Galileo offers hands-on STEAM projects, outdoor games and play, and a variety of building projects and crafts. Campers take part in collaborative activities such as small group challenges, team-building challenges, design challenges, and one epic individual project throughout the week for middle schoolers. The program also includes songs, lanyards, face painting, pie throwing, lunch and free play, and a Weekly Water Day that is described as a Camp Galileo tradition, with activities like devising Water Day stations, putting on mini Olympics, engineering launchers and golf-courses, leading skits, planning flash mobs, and crafting flair.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs 9am–3pm, with optional AM care from 8–9am and optional PM care from 3–6pm
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo’s structure includes Nebula campers (K–1st) and Star campers (2nd–3rd) working on 1–2 day, age-appropriate projects individually and in small groups, Supernova campers (4th–5th) working on small group challenges and longer individual projects, and Meteors (6th–8th) focusing on one epic individual project throughout the week. Counselors in Training (CITs) are described as leaders at camp who own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing, shadow K–5th-grade campers, observe and support Galileo staffers in action, mentor younger kids, and receive personalized coaching from experienced instructors. Campers take a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
Camp Galileo states that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on is a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The program’s mission statement says that at Galileo, summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn. Created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, the curriculum is described as imagination-sparking and focused on unlocking the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges.
Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and notes that it serves 90+ communities, has worked with 570K+ young innovators, and has provided 49K+ scholarships. Camp Galileo’s curriculum is described as combining STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10, and the organization states that it is so much more than a summer camp. For over 20 years, families have been coming back to Galileo, and the organization reports that for over 20 years it has delivered hands-on STEAM projects, outdoor play and big summer fun to hundreds of thousands of campers.
Testimonials from 2024 parents describe kids loving the counselors, projects, games and activities, and mention that campers enjoyed building things, making new friends, and are still singing songs from camp. One 2024 parent from Laguna Niguel reports that their kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, and another from Manhattan Beach notes that they plan to return next summer and for longer.
Last updated June 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs 9am–3pm, with optional AM care from 8–9am and optional PM care from 3–6pm
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo’s structure includes Nebula campers (K–1st) and Star campers (2nd–3rd) working on 1–2 day, age-appropriate projects individually and in small groups, Supernova campers (4th–5th) working on small group challenges and longer individual projects, and Meteors (6th–8th) focusing on one epic individual project throughout the week. Counselors in Training (CITs) are described as leaders at camp who own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing, shadow K–5th-grade campers, observe and support Galileo staffers in action, mentor younger kids, and receive personalized coaching from experienced instructors. Campers take a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
Camp Galileo states that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on is a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The program’s mission statement says that at Galileo, summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn. Created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, the curriculum is described as imagination-sparking and focused on unlocking the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges.
Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and notes that it serves 90+ communities, has worked with 570K+ young innovators, and has provided 49K+ scholarships. Camp Galileo’s curriculum is described as combining STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10, and the organization states that it is so much more than a summer camp. For over 20 years, families have been coming back to Galileo, and the organization reports that for over 20 years it has delivered hands-on STEAM projects, outdoor play and big summer fun to hundreds of thousands of campers.
Testimonials from 2024 parents describe kids loving the counselors, projects, games and activities, and mention that campers enjoyed building things, making new friends, and are still singing songs from camp. One 2024 parent from Laguna Niguel reports that their kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, and another from Manhattan Beach notes that they plan to return next summer and for longer.
Last updated June 18, 2026.
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