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Camp Galileo offers hands-on projects, outdoor play, and collaborative challenges that include STEAM projects, crafts, lanyards, outdoor games, silly songs, skits, cheers, and team-building challenges. Campers take part in activities like face painting, pie throwing, Water Day stations, putting on mini Olympics, and hands-on design challenges such as engineering launchers and engineering golf-courses. The program also includes songs, a nut-free snack break, and collaborative activities throughout the day.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs 9am–3pm, with optional extended AM care from 8–9am and PM care from 3–6pm.
Camp Galileo’s curriculum is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach and engages campers in age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, with Nebula (Kinder–1st), Star (2nd–3rd), Supernova (4th–5th), and Meteors (6th–8th) camper groups, plus Counselors in Training who engage in leadership development activities and own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. Middle school campers in the Meteors group work on one individual project throughout the week, while Counselors in Training can shadow K–5th-grade campers, observe and support Galileo staffers in action, mentor younger kids, lead skits, plan flash mobs, and craft flair. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs, with over 60 camps across five regions and more than 90 communities served. Since its start, Galileo has served over 570,000 young innovators, awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and engaged K–10th graders at locations across the country. The organization works with like-minded groups across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
The program’s mission states that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world, and that Galileo works actively to increase access, value differences, and welcome all. Camp Galileo reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year. It consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parents in 2024 have described Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games, and activities that their kids look forward to every summer, and have noted building projects, songs, and what they saw as an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning. Families have also described the camp as fun and inclusive, with kids coming home happy, chanting camp cheers, and wanting to return for longer sessions, and have said they feel it is the perfect camp experience where kids build community, work on projects, learn about the topic, play games, and experience lots of silliness.
Last updated April 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–16 years old
• Schedule: Camp day runs 9am–3pm, with optional extended AM care from 8–9am and PM care from 3–6pm.
Camp Galileo’s curriculum is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach and engages campers in age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges, with Nebula (Kinder–1st), Star (2nd–3rd), Supernova (4th–5th), and Meteors (6th–8th) camper groups, plus Counselors in Training who engage in leadership development activities and own projects within a camp aspect of their choosing. Middle school campers in the Meteors group work on one individual project throughout the week, while Counselors in Training can shadow K–5th-grade campers, observe and support Galileo staffers in action, mentor younger kids, lead skits, plan flash mobs, and craft flair. The program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs, with over 60 camps across five regions and more than 90 communities served. Since its start, Galileo has served over 570,000 young innovators, awarded more than 49,000 scholarships, and engaged K–10th graders at locations across the country. The organization works with like-minded groups across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education.
The program’s mission states that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world, and that Galileo works actively to increase access, value differences, and welcome all. Camp Galileo reports that it meticulously recruits stellar educators to join a diverse and mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year. It consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives.
Parents in 2024 have described Camp Galileo as a joyful environment with counselors, projects, games, and activities that their kids look forward to every summer, and have noted building projects, songs, and what they saw as an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning. Families have also described the camp as fun and inclusive, with kids coming home happy, chanting camp cheers, and wanting to return for longer sessions, and have said they feel it is the perfect camp experience where kids build community, work on projects, learn about the topic, play games, and experience lots of silliness.
Last updated April 18, 2026.
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