Camp Galileo
Palo Alto Summer Camp (location TBD), 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
About
Camp Galileo includes hands-on STEAM projects, building projects, crafts, lanyards, and design challenges. Campers take part in collaborative activities, team-building challenges, outdoor play and outdoor games, as well as songs, skits, cheers, silly songs, flash mobs, face painting, pie throwing, Water Day stations, engineering launchers, engineering golf-courses, and mini Olympics. Campers also have a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day from June 22–July 24 with a 9am–3pm camp day and optional 8–9am AM Care and 3–6pm PM Care
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks with code COUNTDOWN25; Rail Rides & Road Trips $619
Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10. Campers build creative confidence by turning their ideas into individual, polished STEAM projects to take home every week, and they collaborate in small groups on daily design challenges where sending their creations crashing down is part of the learning. Counselors in Training engage in leadership development activities, own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing, shadow K–5th-grade campers, observe and support Galileo staffers, mentor younger kids and receive personalized coaching.
Camp Galileo is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. Galileo 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 campers and awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence and resilience skills they learn at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives. The organization states that it is deeply committed to building communities which offer the opportunity to become an innovator to all regardless of personal or social circumstances, and that it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all. Camp Galileo’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Families describe Camp Galileo as a fun, inclusive environment where kids come home happy, chanting camp cheers and singing songs from camp. Parents report that their kids love the counselors, projects, games and activities, and that their children look forward to returning every summer. Some parents say their kids enjoy building things, making new friends and working on building projects, and that camp feels well run and well staffed. One parent describes it as a camp experience that builds community, includes amazing projects tied to a topic, fun games and lots of silliness. Another parent reports that their kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, and one describes it as an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day from June 22–July 24 with a 9am–3pm camp day and optional 8–9am AM Care and 3–6pm PM Care
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks with code COUNTDOWN25; Rail Rides & Road Trips $619
Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10. Campers build creative confidence by turning their ideas into individual, polished STEAM projects to take home every week, and they collaborate in small groups on daily design challenges where sending their creations crashing down is part of the learning. Counselors in Training engage in leadership development activities, own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing, shadow K–5th-grade campers, observe and support Galileo staffers, mentor younger kids and receive personalized coaching.
Camp Galileo is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. Galileo 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 campers and awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence and resilience skills they learn at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives. The organization states that it is deeply committed to building communities which offer the opportunity to become an innovator to all regardless of personal or social circumstances, and that it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all. Camp Galileo’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Families describe Camp Galileo as a fun, inclusive environment where kids come home happy, chanting camp cheers and singing songs from camp. Parents report that their kids love the counselors, projects, games and activities, and that their children look forward to returning every summer. Some parents say their kids enjoy building things, making new friends and working on building projects, and that camp feels well run and well staffed. One parent describes it as a camp experience that builds community, includes amazing projects tied to a topic, fun games and lots of silliness. Another parent reports that their kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, and one describes it as an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
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