Camp Galileo - San Francisco (Twin Peaks/Noe Valley)
Alvarado Elementary School, 625 Douglass St, San Francisco, CA 94114
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Camp Galileo - San Francisco (Twin Peaks/Noe Valley) includes hands-on STEAM projects, design challenges, collaborative activities, and outdoor play. Campers take part in outdoor games, songs, skits, flash mobs, crafts, lanyards, face painting, pie throwing, Water Day stations, team-building challenges, and mini Olympics, along with engineering launchers and engineering golf-courses. The program also includes leadership development activities through a Counselors in Training (CIT) program with camp mentorship, and features a rubber chicken as its mascot.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run June 8–July 17, with a core camp day from 9am–3pm and optional extended care
• Price: Superhero Adventure $610
The camp day runs from 9am–3pm, with optional AM Care from 8–9am and optional PM Care from 3–6pm. The program includes a nut-free snack break. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10 and is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers.
Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country and operates over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Galileo states that it is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach and offers award-winning camps and expanded learning programs, and it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. Its mission statement is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn. Galileo also 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 the environment is joyful with counselors, projects, games and activities, and that campers have fun building things, making new friends, and engaging in educational experiences. Other parents describe kids loving building projects and camp songs, note that camps feel well run and well staffed, and mention fun, inclusive environments with camp cheers, community building, amazing projects, and lots of silliness.
Last updated March 17, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run June 8–July 17, with a core camp day from 9am–3pm and optional extended care
• Price: Superhero Adventure $610
The camp day runs from 9am–3pm, with optional AM Care from 8–9am and optional PM Care from 3–6pm. The program includes a nut-free snack break. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10 and is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers.
Since its start in 2002, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country and operates over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Galileo states that it is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach and offers award-winning camps and expanded learning programs, and it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. Its mission statement is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn. Galileo also 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 the environment is joyful with counselors, projects, games and activities, and that campers have fun building things, making new friends, and engaging in educational experiences. Other parents describe kids loving building projects and camp songs, note that camps feel well run and well staffed, and mention fun, inclusive environments with camp cheers, community building, amazing projects, and lots of silliness.
Last updated March 17, 2026.
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