Camp Galileo
West Valley Elementary School, 1500 Partridge Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
About
Camp Galileo includes hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor play and outdoor games. Campers take part in songs, silly songs, skits, cheers, flash mobs, crafts, lanyards, face painting, pie throwing, Water Day stations, mini Olympics, and team-building and collaborative design challenges such as engineering launchers and engineering golf-courses.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs 9am–3pm, with optional extended care before and after camp
• Price: $610 for Nebulas Superhero Adventure week (Jun 8–Jun 12)
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and has operated over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Since 2002, it has served over 600,000 campers, including over 570,000 campers and more than 49,000 scholarships awarded. The program offers an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, supported by an imagination-sparking curriculum created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers. Camp Galileo operates award-winning camps, consistently earning “Best Camp” community awards, and uses the Galileo Innovation Approach, with a rubber chicken as its mascot.
Camp Galileo includes a Counselor in Training (CIT) program and a nut-free snack break. Optional AM Care runs from 8–9am and optional PM Care runs from 3–6pm. The stated mission is that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives. The organization works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
Parent feedback includes reports that kids “always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before” and that Camp Galileo is “such a joyful environment” where children enjoy counselors, projects, games and activities and look forward to returning every summer. Other parents describe it as “an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning,” note that their kids “loved all the building projects and are still singing songs from camp,” and say they plan to return for longer. Additional comments describe a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids come home “happy and chanting camp cheers,” and call it “the perfect camp experience” where kids “work on amazing projects,” “play fun games,” and counselors “make sure there’s lots of silliness.”
Last updated March 20, 2026.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs 9am–3pm, with optional extended care before and after camp
• Price: $610 for Nebulas Superhero Adventure week (Jun 8–Jun 12)
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and has operated over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Since 2002, it has served over 600,000 campers, including over 570,000 campers and more than 49,000 scholarships awarded. The program offers an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, supported by an imagination-sparking curriculum created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers. Camp Galileo operates award-winning camps, consistently earning “Best Camp” community awards, and uses the Galileo Innovation Approach, with a rubber chicken as its mascot.
Camp Galileo includes a Counselor in Training (CIT) program and a nut-free snack break. Optional AM Care runs from 8–9am and optional PM Care runs from 3–6pm. The stated mission is that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world. A Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives. The organization works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
Parent feedback includes reports that kids “always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before” and that Camp Galileo is “such a joyful environment” where children enjoy counselors, projects, games and activities and look forward to returning every summer. Other parents describe it as “an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning,” note that their kids “loved all the building projects and are still singing songs from camp,” and say they plan to return for longer. Additional comments describe a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids come home “happy and chanting camp cheers,” and call it “the perfect camp experience” where kids “work on amazing projects,” “play fun games,” and counselors “make sure there’s lots of silliness.”
Last updated March 20, 2026.
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