Steve & Kate's Camp - DC - Penn Quarter
Girls Global Academy, 733 8th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
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Steve & Kate's Camp - DC - Penn Quarter offers activities such as stop-motion animation, sewing, coding, film, robotics, a virtual reality experience, interactive art apps, a bakery, a tinker lab, and 3D pens. Campers also have access to activities like Find Chuckie, Friday Pie-Day, sports and rec, a go-kart experience, tabletop games, building marble mazes, building forts, and a full-body interactive movement video game. Additional offerings include a yoga workshop, the Tiki Island Slide, an Inflatable Bounce House, a giant inflatable obstacle course, the Scales and Tails Animal Show, a reptile relay race, Weavers of the World, and a giant web making activity.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 22–Jul 31, 8:00am–6:00pm, closed July 3
For the Tiki Island Slide, campers should bring a swimsuit, towel, and water shoes or sandals to participate. The camp follows a model where campers choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long. Families can buy any number of days and send their child to camp on any day they choose, with drop-off and pick-up allowed at any time during camp hours. Long camp hours, meals, and snacks are included, and any unused days are automatically refunded at the end of summer. Steve & Kate’s Camp has operated with this approach since 1980, and this location’s director is Adele. Girls Global Academy is the host school for this camp location, and it is ADA accessible. This camp location does not offer outdoor activities, including water activities.
The camp’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom of choice in activities as a contrast to rigid structure during the rest of the year, and describes camp as a place where kids are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Testimonials describe children “blossoming” and “discovering a freedom of identity,” compare the camp to a world run by kids, and note that many children of people working at companies like Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend. Other testimonials describe the camp as combining a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-focused approach and mention that working parents’ worries “dissipate” with the camp’s model.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 22–Jul 31, 8:00am–6:00pm, closed July 3
For the Tiki Island Slide, campers should bring a swimsuit, towel, and water shoes or sandals to participate. The camp follows a model where campers choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long. Families can buy any number of days and send their child to camp on any day they choose, with drop-off and pick-up allowed at any time during camp hours. Long camp hours, meals, and snacks are included, and any unused days are automatically refunded at the end of summer. Steve & Kate’s Camp has operated with this approach since 1980, and this location’s director is Adele. Girls Global Academy is the host school for this camp location, and it is ADA accessible. This camp location does not offer outdoor activities, including water activities.
The camp’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom of choice in activities as a contrast to rigid structure during the rest of the year, and describes camp as a place where kids are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Testimonials describe children “blossoming” and “discovering a freedom of identity,” compare the camp to a world run by kids, and note that many children of people working at companies like Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend. Other testimonials describe the camp as combining a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-focused approach and mention that working parents’ worries “dissipate” with the camp’s model.
Last updated June 14, 2026.