Camp Galileo
Los Alamitos Elementary - San Jose Almaden, 6130 Silberman Drive, San Jose, CA 95120
About
Camp Galileo includes hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative design challenges, outdoor play and games, silly songs, skits, cheers, crafts, lanyards, and building projects. Campers take part in activities such as team-building challenges, face painting, pie throwing, Water Day stations, mini Olympics, engineering launchers and golf-courses, mentoring younger kids, leadership development activities, and planning flash mobs. Campers also have a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs June 8–July 24, 9am–3pm, with optional extended care from 8–9am and 3–6pm
• Price: $610
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10 and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is described by the program as a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The program states that its imagination-sparking, STEAM-focused curriculum unlocks the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges, and that its passionate staff nurtures and inspires campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity and making what it calls “incredible camp magic.” The organization reports that it has served over 570,000 campers, awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and that it works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. The program notes that it operates 60+ camps across five regions, that its mascot is a rubber chicken, and that it believes every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.
Parent feedback shared by the program includes comments that kids “always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before,” that it is “such a joyful environment” with counselors, projects, games and activities a child looks forward to every summer, and that one child had “a lot of fun building things and making new friends” in what a parent described as an “exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning.” Other parents report that their kids “loved all the building projects” and are “still singing songs from camp,” that they found it “well run and well staffed,” and that they plan to return “next summer and for longer.” Additional testimonials describe a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids “came home happy and chanting camp cheers” and refer to it as “the perfect camp experience” where “it builds community, the kids work on amazing projects and learn about that topic, they play fun games, and counselors make sure there’s lots of silliness.”
Last updated March 7, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs June 8–July 24, 9am–3pm, with optional extended care from 8–9am and 3–6pm
• Price: $610
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10 and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is described by the program as a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The program states that its imagination-sparking, STEAM-focused curriculum unlocks the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges, and that its passionate staff nurtures and inspires campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity and making what it calls “incredible camp magic.” The organization reports that it has served over 570,000 campers, awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and that it works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. The program notes that it operates 60+ camps across five regions, that its mascot is a rubber chicken, and that it believes every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.
Parent feedback shared by the program includes comments that kids “always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before,” that it is “such a joyful environment” with counselors, projects, games and activities a child looks forward to every summer, and that one child had “a lot of fun building things and making new friends” in what a parent described as an “exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning.” Other parents report that their kids “loved all the building projects” and are “still singing songs from camp,” that they found it “well run and well staffed,” and that they plan to return “next summer and for longer.” Additional testimonials describe a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids “came home happy and chanting camp cheers” and refer to it as “the perfect camp experience” where “it builds community, the kids work on amazing projects and learn about that topic, they play fun games, and counselors make sure there’s lots of silliness.”
Last updated March 7, 2026.
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