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Camp Galileo features hands-on STEAM projects, collaborative design challenges, outdoor games, and silly songs. Campers take part in activities such as face painting, pie throwing, songs, skits, and other hands-on learning projects.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and has grown to operate 60+ camps across five regions. It operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and has served over 570,000 campers while awarding more than 49,000 scholarships. The program’s curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, is STEAM-focused, and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The staff includes meticulously recruited educators on a diverse, mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year, and the program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
The organization 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 committed to building communities at its camps that welcome all, increase access, value differences, and work to break down barriers and build up supports. It reports working with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Camp Galileo notes that fun is the first order of business, with outdoor play, songs, skits and silly traditions as part of every day, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is both a blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime.
Camp Galileo consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives. Parent feedback includes comments about creative projects, hands-on work, enthusiastic and supportive staff, kids coming home excited and happy, and campers asking to return the following year. Parents also describe counselors as engaging and encouraging, mention that staff know kids by name, and note that their children came home doing camp cheers and talking about making new friends.
Last updated August 3, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
Camp Galileo began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and has grown to operate 60+ camps across five regions. It operates award-winning summer camps and expanded learning programs at over 60 locations in Northern and Southern California, Chicagoland, Denver and Seattle, and has served over 570,000 campers while awarding more than 49,000 scholarships. The program’s curriculum is created by a year-round team of teachers, artists, makers and engineers, is STEAM-focused, and is grounded in the Galileo Innovation Approach. The staff includes meticulously recruited educators on a diverse, mission-driven team, many of whom return year after year, and the program’s mascot is a rubber chicken.
The organization 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 committed to building communities at its camps that welcome all, increase access, value differences, and work to break down barriers and build up supports. It reports working with like-minded organizations across its communities to enhance and extend opportunities for innovation education. Camp Galileo notes that fun is the first order of business, with outdoor play, songs, skits and silly traditions as part of every day, and that every hands-on project and outdoor game K–10th graders take on at Camp Galileo is both a blast and an opportunity to build creative problem solving and collaboration skills that last a lifetime.
Camp Galileo consistently earns “Best Camp” community awards, and a Stanford Graduate School of Education study found that Galileo kids internalize the skills they learn at camp—collaboration, persistence, resilience—and apply them to other aspects of their lives. Parent feedback includes comments about creative projects, hands-on work, enthusiastic and supportive staff, kids coming home excited and happy, and campers asking to return the following year. Parents also describe counselors as engaging and encouraging, mention that staff know kids by name, and note that their children came home doing camp cheers and talking about making new friends.
Last updated August 3, 2026.
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