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Camp Galileo includes hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor play, outdoor games, and building projects where campers spend time building things. Campers also take part in songs, skits, silly traditions, face painting, pie throwing, and design challenges. 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 that last a lifetime.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and operates 60+ camps across five regions. Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002, and since then has grown to 60+ locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country, has served over 570,000 campers, and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. The organization notes that it has served 570K+ young innovators, 90+ communities, and awarded 49K+ scholarships.
The program’s curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and is described as imagination-sparking and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. This curriculum engages campers in age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop their critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills, and is described as unlocking the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges. The program states that every hands-on STEAM project, outdoor play, and big summer fun has been delivered to hundreds of thousands of campers for over 20 years. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Camp Galileo’s mission states that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, and that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world. The organization states that it is deeply committed to building communities within the organization and at its camps, which offer that opportunity to all regardless of personal or social circumstances. Galileo works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all, and works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
The staff description states that passionate staff nurture and inspire campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity and making camp magic. The program reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, and that many staff members return year after year.
Galileo reports that it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study is cited as finding that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parent feedback includes comments that kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, and that children love the counselors, projects, games and activities, and look forward to returning every summer. Parents describe their children having a lot of fun building things, making new friends, and experiencing an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning. Other parents report that their kids loved all the building projects, are still singing songs from camp, and that the camp felt well run and well staffed. Families also describe Camp Galileo as a fun, inclusive environment where kids came home happy and chanting camp cheers, and as a camp experience that builds community, includes amazing projects tied to a topic, fun games, and counselors who make sure there is 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 operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and operates 60+ camps across five regions. Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002, and since then has grown to 60+ locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country, has served over 570,000 campers, and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. The organization notes that it has served 570K+ young innovators, 90+ communities, and awarded 49K+ scholarships.
The program’s curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and is described as imagination-sparking and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. This curriculum engages campers in age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop their critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills, and is described as unlocking the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges. The program states that every hands-on STEAM project, outdoor play, and big summer fun has been delivered to hundreds of thousands of campers for over 20 years. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Camp Galileo’s mission states that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, and that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world. The organization states that it is deeply committed to building communities within the organization and at its camps, which offer that opportunity to all regardless of personal or social circumstances. Galileo works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all, and works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
The staff description states that passionate staff nurture and inspire campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity and making camp magic. The program reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, and that many staff members return year after year.
Galileo reports that it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study is cited as finding that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parent feedback includes comments that kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, and that children love the counselors, projects, games and activities, and look forward to returning every summer. Parents describe their children having a lot of fun building things, making new friends, and experiencing an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning. Other parents report that their kids loved all the building projects, are still singing songs from camp, and that the camp felt well run and well staffed. Families also describe Camp Galileo as a fun, inclusive environment where kids came home happy and chanting camp cheers, and as a camp experience that builds community, includes amazing projects tied to a topic, fun games, and counselors who make sure there is lots of silliness.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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