Steve & Kate's Camp - Cambridge
Cambridge Friends School, 5 Cadbury Rd, Cambridge, MA 02140
About
Steve & Kate's Camp - Cambridge offers activities such as coding, sewing, baking, making, sports, filming, lounging, and stop-motion animation. Campers can spend time in the Sewing Salon, Media Lab, Robotics area, Bakery, Tinker Lab, Sports & Rec, Gameroom & Lounge, and take part in S&K traditions, weekly specials, water play, and Carnival Day. In the Media Lab, campers can work with film, coding, robotics, interactive virtual reality experiences, interactive art apps, and stop-motion animation.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 15–Aug 21, 8:00am–6:00pm; closed July 3
In Robotics, campers have access to guided activities, self-directed games, robot landscapes, and custom mazes. The Tinker Lab includes arts and crafts, custom maker packs, and 3D pens, while the Sewing Salon uses both hand-sewing and machine sewing techniques. S&K traditions at this camp include Find Chuckie, which uses a rubber chicken, and Friday Pie-Day. Weekly specials may include giant inflatables, a musical performance, a movement workshop, or a popup petting zoo.
The camp’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom to expand and evolve by letting campers choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and describes this experience as both pure joy and a training ground for life where they are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The program notes that it offers long camp hours, included meals and snacks, the option to buy any number of days and attend any day, flexible drop-off and pick-up times, and automatic refunds for unused days at summer’s end. It also states that parents can buy any number of day passes, attend camp any time, and receive automatic refunds for unused passes.
Cuisine at camp includes meals and snacks in partnership with fan favorite restaurants, with menus that feature rotating specials and healthy snacks and sides that kids can grab whenever they want. The camp notes that it has Youngest Camper Support Staff dedicated specifically to supporting the youngest campers. As summer approaches, registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with information about local drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, what to bring, and other camp details, and families are emailed a link to complete required state paperwork online after registration.
The camp’s history notes that in 1980, Steve and Kate Susskind created a summer camp after seeing kids’ independence slipping away. The program states that its summer day camps are for kids aged 4–12, and that some states have slightly higher age requirements, and that holiday camps are also for kids ages 4–12. The camp must comply with regulations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and be licensed by the Cambridge Board of Health.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp blossom and discover a freedom of identity and that kids find their thumbprint there. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that many attend given the camp’s philosophy. The Washington Post describes Steve & Kate’s Camp as a blend of traditional camp with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired approaches to programming and payment. The Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 15–Aug 21, 8:00am–6:00pm; closed July 3
In Robotics, campers have access to guided activities, self-directed games, robot landscapes, and custom mazes. The Tinker Lab includes arts and crafts, custom maker packs, and 3D pens, while the Sewing Salon uses both hand-sewing and machine sewing techniques. S&K traditions at this camp include Find Chuckie, which uses a rubber chicken, and Friday Pie-Day. Weekly specials may include giant inflatables, a musical performance, a movement workshop, or a popup petting zoo.
The camp’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom to expand and evolve by letting campers choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and describes this experience as both pure joy and a training ground for life where they are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The program notes that it offers long camp hours, included meals and snacks, the option to buy any number of days and attend any day, flexible drop-off and pick-up times, and automatic refunds for unused days at summer’s end. It also states that parents can buy any number of day passes, attend camp any time, and receive automatic refunds for unused passes.
Cuisine at camp includes meals and snacks in partnership with fan favorite restaurants, with menus that feature rotating specials and healthy snacks and sides that kids can grab whenever they want. The camp notes that it has Youngest Camper Support Staff dedicated specifically to supporting the youngest campers. As summer approaches, registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with information about local drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, what to bring, and other camp details, and families are emailed a link to complete required state paperwork online after registration.
The camp’s history notes that in 1980, Steve and Kate Susskind created a summer camp after seeing kids’ independence slipping away. The program states that its summer day camps are for kids aged 4–12, and that some states have slightly higher age requirements, and that holiday camps are also for kids ages 4–12. The camp must comply with regulations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and be licensed by the Cambridge Board of Health.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp blossom and discover a freedom of identity and that kids find their thumbprint there. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that many attend given the camp’s philosophy. The Washington Post describes Steve & Kate’s Camp as a blend of traditional camp with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired approaches to programming and payment. The Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.