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Camp Galileo features hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative activities and design challenges, along with outdoor play and outdoor games. Campers take part in songs, skits, silly songs and silly traditions that include face painting and pie throwing, and the camp’s mascot is a rubber chicken. Every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is described as an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: Save $30 per camp week, now through 5/6; discount automatically applied at checkout.
Camp Galileo uses an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum with a signature blend of hands-on learning and fun, grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and is described as imagination-sparking and focused on age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges. The program states a focus on developing critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills, and describes its staff as passionate, nurturing and inspiring while cultivating resilience and creativity. Outdoor play, songs, skits and silly traditions are part of every day, and the curriculum is described as unlocking innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges, with fun-filled camps for lifelong learning.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002. Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. 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. Galileo reports having served over 570,000 campers, awarding more than 49,000 scholarships, serving 90+ communities, and reaching 570K+ young innovators.
Galileo operates summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, with over 60 locations in California, Colorado, Washington and Illinois. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and states that it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all. The program’s mission statement is that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.
Parent feedback from 2024 includes comments that kids “always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before,” that Camp Galileo is “such a joyful environment” with counselors, projects, games and activities that bring children back every summer, and that it is “an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning.” Parents also report that their kids loved building projects, are “still singing songs from camp,” and that the camp felt “well run and well staffed.” Unattributed family quotes describe a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids came home “happy and chanting camp cheers,” and call it “the perfect camp experience” where community is built, kids work on “amazing projects,” play fun games and counselors “make sure there’s lots of silliness.”
Last updated May 5, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Price: Save $30 per camp week, now through 5/6; discount automatically applied at checkout.
Camp Galileo uses an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum with a signature blend of hands-on learning and fun, grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, and is described as imagination-sparking and focused on age-appropriate, hands-on STEAM projects and collaborative design challenges. The program states a focus on developing critical thinking, teamwork and iteration skills, and describes its staff as passionate, nurturing and inspiring while cultivating resilience and creativity. Outdoor play, songs, skits and silly traditions are part of every day, and the curriculum is described as unlocking innovation skills kids need to thrive and persist in the face of challenges, with fun-filled camps for lifelong learning.
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002. Galileo operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs and consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards. 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. Galileo reports having served over 570,000 campers, awarding more than 49,000 scholarships, serving 90+ communities, and reaching 570K+ young innovators.
Galileo operates summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, with over 60 locations in California, Colorado, Washington and Illinois. Galileo works with like-minded organizations across their communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education and states that it works actively to break down barriers and build up supports through increasing access, valuing differences and welcoming all. The program’s mission statement is that every individual has the potential to become an innovator who can envision and create a better world.
Parent feedback from 2024 includes comments that kids “always love it and come home thinking more independently and deeply than before,” that Camp Galileo is “such a joyful environment” with counselors, projects, games and activities that bring children back every summer, and that it is “an exciting educational experience with a lot of engagement and learning.” Parents also report that their kids loved building projects, are “still singing songs from camp,” and that the camp felt “well run and well staffed.” Unattributed family quotes describe a “fun, inclusive environment” where kids came home “happy and chanting camp cheers,” and call it “the perfect camp experience” where community is built, kids work on “amazing projects,” play fun games and counselors “make sure there’s lots of silliness.”
Last updated May 5, 2026.
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