Steve & Kate's Camp - Chevy Chase
Concord Hill School, 6050 Wisconsin Ave, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
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Steve & Kate's Camp - Chevy Chase offers activities such as coding, sewing, baking, making, sports, filming, lounging, and stop-motion animation. Campers can use hand-sewing and machine sewing, work with robotics, explore 3D worlds with an interactive virtual reality experience, and use interactive art apps and 3D pens. The program also includes traditions and games like Find Chuckie and Friday Pie-Day, as well as tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, and a variety of water play options such as water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, a giant sprinkler, Slip N Slide & Water Play, and a giant inflatable obstacle course.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 15–Aug 14, 8:00am–6:00pm (closed July 3)
Additional activities at Steve & Kate's Camp - Chevy Chase include Sports & Rec with classic sports, making up new games, a go-kart experience, weekly specials, a Yoga Workshop, an Inflatable Bounce House, and Scales and Tails with a reptile relay race. The camp uses custom-built animation stages for stop-motion animation, a Media Lab that includes film, coding, robotics, virtual reality, and interactive art apps, and custom “maker packs” made to spur innovation. Campers can participate in weekly specials such as yoga workshops, inflatables, animal presentations, and obstacle courses.
The program’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom to expand and evolve by allowing campers to 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 need to be empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Families can buy any number of days and send their child to camp on any day, drop off and pick up at any time during camp hours, and choose between purchasing Day Passes or a Summer Pass for unlimited use. All-inclusive rates cover all camp hours from 8:00am to 6:00pm, snacks and lunch, and any activities that interest the child, and unused purchased Day Passes are automatically fully refunded at the end of the camp season. The program notes that additional state-required paperwork must be submitted for every child before their first day of camp, and that Concord Hill School is not ADA-accessible.
Steve & Kate’s Camp began in 1980, when Steve and Kate Susskind created a summer camp in response to seeing kids’ independence slipping away. The current leadership team includes VPs Kevin and Mike, who together have 55 years of Steve & Kate’s work experience, with 47 of those years alongside the founders. Mike started as a counselor at Steve & Kate’s in 1998 and has been with the camp since then, and Kevin is a former Steve & Kate’s camper who now works in operations.
Registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation before summer, which includes information about local camp drop-off and pick-up procedures, how to check in and out each day, and what to bring or not bring. For Slip N Slide & Water Play, campers are asked to bring a labeled swimsuit, towel, and water shoes or sandals to participate.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp describe children blossoming and discovering a freedom of identity, compare the camp to a world run by kids, and note that many children of people working at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend. Other testimonials describe the camp as blending a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-focused approach and mention that working parents’ worries dissipate as they consider Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 15–Aug 14, 8:00am–6:00pm (closed July 3)
Additional activities at Steve & Kate's Camp - Chevy Chase include Sports & Rec with classic sports, making up new games, a go-kart experience, weekly specials, a Yoga Workshop, an Inflatable Bounce House, and Scales and Tails with a reptile relay race. The camp uses custom-built animation stages for stop-motion animation, a Media Lab that includes film, coding, robotics, virtual reality, and interactive art apps, and custom “maker packs” made to spur innovation. Campers can participate in weekly specials such as yoga workshops, inflatables, animal presentations, and obstacle courses.
The program’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom to expand and evolve by allowing campers to 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 need to be empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Families can buy any number of days and send their child to camp on any day, drop off and pick up at any time during camp hours, and choose between purchasing Day Passes or a Summer Pass for unlimited use. All-inclusive rates cover all camp hours from 8:00am to 6:00pm, snacks and lunch, and any activities that interest the child, and unused purchased Day Passes are automatically fully refunded at the end of the camp season. The program notes that additional state-required paperwork must be submitted for every child before their first day of camp, and that Concord Hill School is not ADA-accessible.
Steve & Kate’s Camp began in 1980, when Steve and Kate Susskind created a summer camp in response to seeing kids’ independence slipping away. The current leadership team includes VPs Kevin and Mike, who together have 55 years of Steve & Kate’s work experience, with 47 of those years alongside the founders. Mike started as a counselor at Steve & Kate’s in 1998 and has been with the camp since then, and Kevin is a former Steve & Kate’s camper who now works in operations.
Registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation before summer, which includes information about local camp drop-off and pick-up procedures, how to check in and out each day, and what to bring or not bring. For Slip N Slide & Water Play, campers are asked to bring a labeled swimsuit, towel, and water shoes or sandals to participate.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp describe children blossoming and discovering a freedom of identity, compare the camp to a world run by kids, and note that many children of people working at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend. Other testimonials describe the camp as blending a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-focused approach and mention that working parents’ worries dissipate as they consider Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.