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Camp Galileo includes hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative design challenges, collaborative activities, and crafts. Campers take part in outdoor play, mindful outdoor play, outdoor games, team-building challenges, collaborative innovation challenges, and activities such as silly songs, songs, skits, cheers, face painting, pie throwing, lanyards, and week-long STEAM projects for rising 6–8th graders, including Remote-Control Robot and Custom Go Karts projects, with Escape Room listed as a Meteors project. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Camp day 9am–3pm with optional extended care from 8–9am and 3–6pm
• Price: $455–$625 per week, depending on theme (including Nebulas, Stars, Supernovas, and Meteors options)
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Its curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers and combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun through age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, including weekly STEAM projects and collaborative innovation challenges with mindful outdoor play for rising K–1st, 2nd–3rd, and 4th–5th graders. At Galileo, the stated mission is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, with every hands-on project and outdoor game for K–10th graders described as both fun and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The organization reports that it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards and works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Campers have a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
Parent feedback from 2023 and 2024 describes Camp Galileo as joyful and fun, with kids enjoying counselors, projects, games, building projects, and making new friends, and notes that campers come home singing camp songs and chanting camp cheers. Parents also report that their kids look forward to returning every summer, that the camp feels inclusive and welcoming to all kids, and that they view it as a well-run camp experience where kids build things, learn about the weekly topic, and play fun games.
Last updated February 24, 2026.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Camp day 9am–3pm with optional extended care from 8–9am and 3–6pm
• Price: $455–$625 per week, depending on theme (including Nebulas, Stars, Supernovas, and Meteors options)
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle. Its curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers and combines STEAM exploration and outdoor fun through age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, including weekly STEAM projects and collaborative innovation challenges with mindful outdoor play for rising K–1st, 2nd–3rd, and 4th–5th graders. At Galileo, the stated mission is that summer is a time for joyful, friend-filled fun and a time to learn, with every hands-on project and outdoor game for K–10th graders described as both fun and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime. The organization reports that it consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards and works with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Campers have a nut-free snack break during the camp day.
Parent feedback from 2023 and 2024 describes Camp Galileo as joyful and fun, with kids enjoying counselors, projects, games, building projects, and making new friends, and notes that campers come home singing camp songs and chanting camp cheers. Parents also report that their kids look forward to returning every summer, that the camp feels inclusive and welcoming to all kids, and that they view it as a well-run camp experience where kids build things, learn about the weekly topic, and play fun games.
Last updated February 24, 2026.
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