Camp Galileo Oakland (Rockridge)
Chabot Elementary School, 6686 Chabot Road, Oakland, CA 94618
About
Camp Galileo Oakland (Rockridge) offers hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, and design challenges along with outdoor play and outdoor games. Campers take part in songs, skits, crafts, lanyards, face painting, pie throwing, Water Day stations, flash mobs, team-building challenges, engineering launchers, engineering golf-courses, and a mini Olympics. Campers also have a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Weekly sessions running from June 1–July 17 with camp days and optional extended care
• Price: Weekly sessions such as “Mission to the Moon” and “Superhero Adventure” listed at $595.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and now operates 60+ locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun, and engages campers in age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges. Counselors in Training (CITs) engage in leadership development activities, 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. CITs also help devise Water Day stations, lead skits, plan flash mobs, and craft flair. Galileo has served over 600,000 campers, awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. 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. Camp traditions and culture also include a rubber chicken mascot.
At Galileo, the stated mission is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is both fun and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The organization works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Parent feedback from various Galileo locations in 2023 and 2024 describes kids enjoying building projects, songs, games, counselors, and making new friends, and notes that families plan to return for future summers.
Last updated March 16, 2026.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Weekly sessions running from June 1–July 17 with camp days and optional extended care
• Price: Weekly sessions such as “Mission to the Moon” and “Superhero Adventure” listed at $595.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and now operates 60+ locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun, and engages campers in age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges. Counselors in Training (CITs) engage in leadership development activities, 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. CITs also help devise Water Day stations, lead skits, plan flash mobs, and craft flair. Galileo has served over 600,000 campers, awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. 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. Camp traditions and culture also include a rubber chicken mascot.
At Galileo, the stated mission is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is both fun and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The organization works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Parent feedback from various Galileo locations in 2023 and 2024 describes kids enjoying building projects, songs, games, counselors, and making new friends, and notes that families plan to return for future summers.
Last updated March 16, 2026.
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