Steve & Kate's Camp - San Mateo Summer Camp
St. Gregory School, 2701 Haciencda Street, San Mateo, CA 94403
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Steve & Kate's Camp – San Mateo Summer Camp offers activities such as coding, sewing, baking, making, sports, filming, lounging, and stop-motion animation. Campers can spend time in a Media Lab that includes film, coding, robotics, virtual reality with 3D worlds, and interactive art apps, along with guided and self-directed robotics activities like building robot landscapes and custom mazes or using 3D pens. The camp also includes games and events such as Find Chuckie, Friday Pie-Day, tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, carnival games, movement workshops, water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, a giant sprinkler, Sports & Rec, and a popup petting zoo.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Summer day camp offered June 11–August 7, 8:00am–6:00pm, closed July 3
Steve & Kate's Camp states that all year long kids are in rigid structure, and that during summer the camp gives them freedom to expand and evolve, with campers choosing which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long. The program describes this experience as pure joy for kids and as a kind of training ground for life where they are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The camp’s history notes that Steve and Kate started in 1980 and that the program has since expanded to more than 90 locations from Manhattan to Manhattan Beach.
The camp lists several features, including that campers choose their own activities and timing, families can buy any number of days and use them on any camp day, and drop-off and pick-up can happen at any time during camp hours. All-inclusive rates cover all camp hours from 8:00am–6:00pm, snacks and lunch, and any activities that interest the child, with tasty meals and snacks included. The camp offers automatic full refunds for unused purchased Day Passes at the end of the camp season, and if a Summer Pass is underused, the difference versus the daily rate is automatically refunded. Cuisine includes rotating specials as well as healthy snacks and sides that kids can grab whenever they want. The program notes that Hillsdale High School is ADA accessible, that there is Youngest Camper Support Staff dedicated specifically to supporting the youngest campers, and that Steve & Kate’s Camp offers mentorship programs for children aged 14 and 15, with availability that may vary by location.
The camp indicates that, as summer approaches, registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with information about local drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, what to bring and not bring, and other camp details. It also notes that it partners with fan favorite restaurants to provide food that kids enjoy.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp blossom and discover a freedom of identity and that kids find their thumbprint there. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that many attend given the camp’s philosophy. The Washington Post describes the camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired approaches to programming and payment. The Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Summer day camp offered June 11–August 7, 8:00am–6:00pm, closed July 3
Steve & Kate's Camp states that all year long kids are in rigid structure, and that during summer the camp gives them freedom to expand and evolve, with campers choosing which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long. The program describes this experience as pure joy for kids and as a kind of training ground for life where they are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The camp’s history notes that Steve and Kate started in 1980 and that the program has since expanded to more than 90 locations from Manhattan to Manhattan Beach.
The camp lists several features, including that campers choose their own activities and timing, families can buy any number of days and use them on any camp day, and drop-off and pick-up can happen at any time during camp hours. All-inclusive rates cover all camp hours from 8:00am–6:00pm, snacks and lunch, and any activities that interest the child, with tasty meals and snacks included. The camp offers automatic full refunds for unused purchased Day Passes at the end of the camp season, and if a Summer Pass is underused, the difference versus the daily rate is automatically refunded. Cuisine includes rotating specials as well as healthy snacks and sides that kids can grab whenever they want. The program notes that Hillsdale High School is ADA accessible, that there is Youngest Camper Support Staff dedicated specifically to supporting the youngest campers, and that Steve & Kate’s Camp offers mentorship programs for children aged 14 and 15, with availability that may vary by location.
The camp indicates that, as summer approaches, registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with information about local drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, what to bring and not bring, and other camp details. It also notes that it partners with fan favorite restaurants to provide food that kids enjoy.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp blossom and discover a freedom of identity and that kids find their thumbprint there. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that many attend given the camp’s philosophy. The Washington Post describes the camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired approaches to programming and payment. The Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.