Camp Galileo Pleasanton
Mohr Elementary School, 3300 Dennis Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588
About
Camp Galileo Pleasanton offers hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor games, silly songs, face painting, pie throwing, lanyards, crafts, songs, skits, cheers, and team-building and design challenges. Campers take part in Water Day stations, flash mobs, engineering launchers and golf-courses, and a mini Olympics. Every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills, and the camp mascot is a rubber chicken.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day 9am–3pm with optional AM and PM extended care, running June 8–July 24
• Price: Superhero Adventure $595; Animal Extravaganza $525
Camp Galileo Pleasanton uses an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges. Its imagination-sparking curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers. At Galileo, the stated mission is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has operated 60+ camps across five regions, has served over 570,000 campers, has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country. The organization consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards and works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
Parent feedback from other Galileo locations includes comments that kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, that Camp Galileo is a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games and activities that campers look forward to each summer, and that campers have fun building things, making new friends, and staying engaged. Other parents report that their kids loved the building projects, are still singing camp songs, and that they plan to return for longer, and describe the camp as fun and inclusive, with kids coming home happy and chanting camp cheers.
Last updated March 16, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day 9am–3pm with optional AM and PM extended care, running June 8–July 24
• Price: Superhero Adventure $595; Animal Extravaganza $525
Camp Galileo Pleasanton uses an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges. Its imagination-sparking curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers. At Galileo, the stated mission is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn. Since its start in 2002, Galileo has operated 60+ camps across five regions, has served over 570,000 campers, has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country. The organization consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards and works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
Parent feedback from other Galileo locations includes comments that kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before, that Camp Galileo is a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games and activities that campers look forward to each summer, and that campers have fun building things, making new friends, and staying engaged. Other parents report that their kids loved the building projects, are still singing camp songs, and that they plan to return for longer, and describe the camp as fun and inclusive, with kids coming home happy and chanting camp cheers.
Last updated March 16, 2026.
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