Camp Galileo
Our Lady of the Wayside School, 432 S Mitchell Ave, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
About
Camp Galileo offers hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities, outdoor play, and building projects, including specific design challenges. Campers take part in outdoor games, silly songs, face painting, pie throwing, songs, skits, and camp cheers, all centered around the camp’s rubber chicken mascot.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $50 off every camp week through Feb 28.
Since its start in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Camp Galileo has grown to 60+ locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois and has served over 600,000 campers across 90+ communities. The program reports serving 570K+ young innovators and providing 49K+ scholarships.
Camp Galileo’s curriculum is described as an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills. The program states that its imagination-sparking curriculum unlocks the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on is both enjoyable and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills.
The organization’s mission states that it believes every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world, and that it is deeply committed to building communities that welcome all regardless of personal or social circumstances. Galileo reports working actively to break down barriers and build up supports by increasing access, valuing differences, welcoming all, and working with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
Camp Galileo states that its passionate staff nurtures and inspires campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity, and that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year. The program consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills learned at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parent testimonials describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment where kids enjoy counselors, projects, games, and activities, and look forward to returning each summer. Parents report that their kids love building things and building projects, come home singing camp songs and chanting camp cheers, and that the camp feels fun, inclusive, well run, and well staffed, with kids making new friends and engaging in exciting educational experiences with a lot of learning and silliness.
Last updated January 5, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: $50 off every camp week through Feb 28.
Since its start in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Camp Galileo has grown to 60+ locations in California, Colorado, Washington, and Illinois and has served over 600,000 campers across 90+ communities. The program reports serving 570K+ young innovators and providing 49K+ scholarships.
Camp Galileo’s curriculum is described as an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach, with age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges that develop critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills. The program states that its imagination-sparking curriculum unlocks the innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on is both enjoyable and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills.
The organization’s mission states that it believes every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world, and that it is deeply committed to building communities that welcome all regardless of personal or social circumstances. Galileo reports working actively to break down barriers and build up supports by increasing access, valuing differences, welcoming all, and working with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
Camp Galileo states that its passionate staff nurtures and inspires campers every day, cultivating skills like resilience and creativity, and that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year. The program consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize collaboration, persistence, and resilience skills learned at camp and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parent testimonials describe Camp Galileo as a joyful environment where kids enjoy counselors, projects, games, and activities, and look forward to returning each summer. Parents report that their kids love building things and building projects, come home singing camp songs and chanting camp cheers, and that the camp feels fun, inclusive, well run, and well staffed, with kids making new friends and engaging in exciting educational experiences with a lot of learning and silliness.
Last updated January 5, 2026.
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