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Camp Galileo centers on hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative design challenges, and building projects, along with outdoor play and outdoor games. Campers take part in collaborative activities, silly songs, skits, camp cheers, face painting, and pie throwing, and many continue singing songs from camp at home.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo uses an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The curriculum features age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills, with outdoor play, songs, skits and silly traditions as part of every day. The camp’s mascot is a rubber chicken, and fun is the first order of business at this summer camp.
Since its start in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Galileo has grown to 60+ locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois, operating award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Galileo reports that it has served over 570,000–600,000 campers, describes these campers as “young innovators,” and notes that it has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships and now serves 90+ communities. Galileo states that it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills from camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
The organization states that its passionate staff nurtures and inspires campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity, and that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year. Galileo’s mission statement says that its award-winning camps let kids have both joyful, friend-filled fun and learning, that every hands-on project and outdoor game is an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills, and that it believes every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world. The mission also states that Galileo is deeply committed to building communities that welcome all regardless of personal or social circumstances, and that it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports by increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all.
Galileo notes that it works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Family testimonials describe Camp Galileo as joyful and fun, mention kids loving counselors, projects, games and activities, and say campers come home thinking more independently and deeply, building things, making new friends, and staying engaged. Parents also report that their kids are still singing songs from camp, chanting camp cheers, and that the camp feels fun, inclusive, well run, well staffed, and focused on community, amazing projects, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated June 15, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo uses an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers, and grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The curriculum features age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills, with outdoor play, songs, skits and silly traditions as part of every day. The camp’s mascot is a rubber chicken, and fun is the first order of business at this summer camp.
Since its start in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Galileo has grown to 60+ locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois, operating award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Galileo reports that it has served over 570,000–600,000 campers, describes these campers as “young innovators,” and notes that it has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships and now serves 90+ communities. Galileo states that it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills from camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
The organization states that its passionate staff nurtures and inspires campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity, and that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year. Galileo’s mission statement says that its award-winning camps let kids have both joyful, friend-filled fun and learning, that every hands-on project and outdoor game is an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills, and that it believes every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world. The mission also states that Galileo is deeply committed to building communities that welcome all regardless of personal or social circumstances, and that it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports by increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all.
Galileo notes that it works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Family testimonials describe Camp Galileo as joyful and fun, mention kids loving counselors, projects, games and activities, and say campers come home thinking more independently and deeply, building things, making new friends, and staying engaged. Parents also report that their kids are still singing songs from camp, chanting camp cheers, and that the camp feels fun, inclusive, well run, well staffed, and focused on community, amazing projects, fun games, and lots of silliness.
Last updated June 15, 2026.
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