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Camp Galileo features hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor play, and building projects. Campers take on design challenges and create projects ranging from coral reefs and castles to robots and go-karts. The program also includes outdoor games, silly songs, face painting, pie throwing, songs, skits, and camp cheers.
• Ages: 5–15 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 has since grown to over 60 locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. The program operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle, and has served over 570,000 young innovators across 90+ communities. For over 20 years, it has offered hands-on STEAM projects, outdoor play, and camp activities to hundreds of thousands of campers, and its mascot is a rubber chicken.
The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, which uses age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges to develop critical thinking, teamwork, and iteration skills. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo campers internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills and apply them to other aspects of their lives. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and has received recurring “Best Camp” community awards.
The organization states 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 time to learn. It is deeply committed to building communities within the organization and at its camps that welcome all regardless of personal or social circumstances, and it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences, and welcoming all. Its staff is described as passionate, with many returning year after year, and Galileo reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators for a diverse and mission-driven team that nurtures and inspires campers while cultivating skills like resilience and creativity.
Parent feedback includes reports that children come home thinking more independently and deeply, loving the counselors, projects, games, and activities, and looking forward to returning every summer. Parents describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with a lot of engagement and learning, mention that their children enjoyed building things and making new friends, and note that kids loved building projects and are still singing camp songs and chanting camp cheers. Families also describe the camp as fun and inclusive, say their kids came home happy, and share that the experience builds community, includes amazing projects tied to specific topics, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 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 has since grown to over 60 locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. The program operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle, and has served over 570,000 young innovators across 90+ communities. For over 20 years, it has offered hands-on STEAM projects, outdoor play, and camp activities to hundreds of thousands of campers, and its mascot is a rubber chicken.
The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, which uses age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges to develop critical thinking, teamwork, and iteration skills. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo campers internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills and apply them to other aspects of their lives. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and has received recurring “Best Camp” community awards.
The organization states 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 time to learn. It is deeply committed to building communities within the organization and at its camps that welcome all regardless of personal or social circumstances, and it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences, and welcoming all. Its staff is described as passionate, with many returning year after year, and Galileo reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators for a diverse and mission-driven team that nurtures and inspires campers while cultivating skills like resilience and creativity.
Parent feedback includes reports that children come home thinking more independently and deeply, loving the counselors, projects, games, and activities, and looking forward to returning every summer. Parents describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with a lot of engagement and learning, mention that their children enjoyed building things and making new friends, and note that kids loved building projects and are still singing camp songs and chanting camp cheers. Families also describe the camp as fun and inclusive, say their kids came home happy, and share that the experience builds community, includes amazing projects tied to specific topics, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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