Camp Galileo
West Valley Elementary School, 1500 Partridge Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
About
Camp Galileo offers hands-on STEAM projects, building projects, collaborative activities, and outdoor play. Camp days include outdoor games, silly songs, face painting, pie throwing, songs, skits, and camp cheers, and the camp mascot is a rubber chicken. Every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is described as a total blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo engages K–10th graders in hands-on learning and fun through an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum that blends skill-building projects with camp traditions. Its curriculum is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that focus on critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills. The program’s imagination-sparking curriculum is described as unlocking innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and now operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. It operates 60+ camps across five regions, has served over 570,000 campers, and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and works actively to break down barriers and build up supports in pursuit of innovation for all, with a stated commitment to increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all.
Staff are described as a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and the organization reports meticulous recruitment of stellar educators for a diverse and mission-driven team. The program highlights passionate staff who nurture and inspire campers and cultivate resilience and creativity. Camp Galileo states a belief that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn, and its mission is that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.
Camp Galileo 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.
Parent feedback includes comments that kids “come home thinking more independently and deeply than before” and that “counselors make sure there’s lots of silliness.” Parents describe Camp Galileo as “a joyful environment” where children enjoy counselors, projects, games and activities, and look forward to returning every summer. Families report that campers have fun building things, making new friends, and enjoying an “exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning,” and that kids “loved all the building projects” and are “still singing songs from camp.” One family describes it as a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids come home “happy and chanting camp cheers,” and another says it “builds community,” includes “amazing projects,” fun games, and “lots of silliness.”
Last updated June 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $25 Off 1 Week • $50 Off 2+ Weeks. Use Code: COUNTDOWN25
Camp Galileo engages K–10th graders in hands-on learning and fun through an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum that blends skill-building projects with camp traditions. Its curriculum is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that focus on critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills. The program’s imagination-sparking curriculum is described as unlocking innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and now operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. It operates 60+ camps across five regions, has served over 570,000 campers, and has awarded more than 49,000 scholarships. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and works actively to break down barriers and build up supports in pursuit of innovation for all, with a stated commitment to increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all.
Staff are described as a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and the organization reports meticulous recruitment of stellar educators for a diverse and mission-driven team. The program highlights passionate staff who nurture and inspire campers and cultivate resilience and creativity. Camp Galileo states a belief that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a perfect time to learn, and its mission is that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.
Camp Galileo 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.
Parent feedback includes comments that kids “come home thinking more independently and deeply than before” and that “counselors make sure there’s lots of silliness.” Parents describe Camp Galileo as “a joyful environment” where children enjoy counselors, projects, games and activities, and look forward to returning every summer. Families report that campers have fun building things, making new friends, and enjoying an “exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning,” and that kids “loved all the building projects” and are “still singing songs from camp.” One family describes it as a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids come home “happy and chanting camp cheers,” and another says it “builds community,” includes “amazing projects,” fun games, and “lots of silliness.”
Last updated June 18, 2026.
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