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 games, songs, skits, and silly traditions. Campers take part in activities like face painting, pie throwing, making lanyards and crafts, team-building challenges, Water Day stations, flash mobs, engineering launchers and golf-courses, and a mini Olympics. The program’s curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers, and engineers and features age-appropriate projects for different camper groups, including Nebula, Star, Supernova, Meteors, and Counselors in Training.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Weekly sessions running June 8–July 24, with camp days and optional extended care
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp days run from 9am–3pm, with optional AM Care from 8–9am and optional PM Care from 3–6pm. Campers have a nut-free snack break during the day.
Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10, with Nebula and Star campers working on 1–2 day projects, Supernova campers completing small group challenges and longer individual projects, Meteors focusing on one individual project throughout the week, and Counselors in Training engaging in leadership development activities and owning projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. The program’s curriculum engages campers in hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop critical thinking, teamwork, and iteration skills, and is intended to unlock innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges.
Since its start in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country, operates 60+ camps across five regions, and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives. The organization states that it works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education, and that it is so much more than a summer camp. The Camp Galileo mascot is a rubber chicken.
The mission of Galileo is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is both fun and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime.
Parents describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games, and activities that kids look forward to each summer, and note that their kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before. Families report that their children enjoy building things, making new friends, and staying engaged, and that kids loved the building projects and are still singing camp songs after it ends. Other parents describe it as a fun, inclusive environment where kids come home happy, chanting camp cheers, and say they feel it is the perfect camp experience where kids build community, work on projects, learn about the topics, play games, and experience lots of silliness.
Last updated June 5, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Weekly sessions running June 8–July 24, with camp days and optional extended care
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp days run from 9am–3pm, with optional AM Care from 8–9am and optional PM Care from 3–6pm. Campers have a nut-free snack break during the day.
Camp Galileo’s curriculum combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun for kids in grades K–10, with Nebula and Star campers working on 1–2 day projects, Supernova campers completing small group challenges and longer individual projects, Meteors focusing on one individual project throughout the week, and Counselors in Training engaging in leadership development activities and owning projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. The program’s curriculum engages campers in hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop critical thinking, teamwork, and iteration skills, and is intended to unlock innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges.
Since its start in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Galileo has served over 600,000 campers at locations across the country, operates 60+ camps across five regions, and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver, and Seattle, and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives. The organization states that it works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education, and that it is so much more than a summer camp. The Camp Galileo mascot is a rubber chicken.
The mission of Galileo is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is both fun and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime.
Parents describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games, and activities that kids look forward to each summer, and note that their kids come home thinking more independently and deeply than before. Families report that their children enjoy building things, making new friends, and staying engaged, and that kids loved the building projects and are still singing camp songs after it ends. Other parents describe it as a fun, inclusive environment where kids come home happy, chanting camp cheers, and say they feel it is the perfect camp experience where kids build community, work on projects, learn about the topics, play games, and experience lots of silliness.
Last updated June 5, 2026.
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