Steve & Kate's Camp
Our Lady of Peace Catholic School, 5435 11th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55417
About
Steve & Kate's Camp offers a wide range of activities, including coding, robotics, sewing, baking, and stop-motion animation. Campers can spend time in spaces such as the Sewing Salon, Media Lab, Bakery, Tinker Lab, Gameroom & Lounge, and Sports & Rec, as well as take part in Water Play and Weekly Specials. The camp also includes options like building marble mazes and forts, tabletop games, a virtual reality experience, interactive art apps, an inflatable bounce house, inflatable slip n’ slides, a giant sprinkler, and camp traditions such as Find Chuckie and Friday Pie-Day.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Camp hours 8:00am–6:00pm, from Jun 15–Aug 14, closed July 3
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $88. Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $73. Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,190.
Steve & Kate’s Camp was created in 1980. The camp’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom to choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and describes this experience as both pure joy for kids and a kind of training ground for life. The camp’s leadership at this location includes a Director named Natalie.
The program notes that Minnesota state licensing requires staff to ensure children receive the USDA requirements each day, and that milk and sides are provided to the youngest campers and available by request for older campers, with Nutrigrain Granola Bars available as a high wheat morning snack. All camp hours from 8:00am–6:00pm, snacks and lunch, and any activities that interest the child are included in the all-inclusive rates, and parents can buy any number of day passes, attend camp any time, and receive automatic full refunds for unused purchased Day Passes at the end of the season. If a Summer Pass is not used enough days to justify the cost, or if a Mentorship Summer Pass is used less than 30 days, the difference from the daily rate is refunded automatically, and unused Mentorship Day Passes are automatically refunded in full at summer’s end.
The Mentorship Program at this camp location is intended exclusively for children ages 14–15 for Summer 2026, and mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation. Campers ramp up and wind down with recreational choices in the early morning and late afternoon. As summer approaches, registered families receive a virtual camp orientation with information about what to bring and not bring, and additional state-required paperwork must be submitted for every child before their first day of camp.
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 at Steve & Kate’s.” Apple’s Hot News states, “If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and 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 “given their philosophy, it’s no surprise so many attend.” The Washington Post describes Steve & Kate’s Camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, and 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: Camp hours 8:00am–6:00pm, from Jun 15–Aug 14, closed July 3
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $88. Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $73. Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,190.
Steve & Kate’s Camp was created in 1980. The camp’s mission states that during summer, it gives kids freedom to choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and describes this experience as both pure joy for kids and a kind of training ground for life. The camp’s leadership at this location includes a Director named Natalie.
The program notes that Minnesota state licensing requires staff to ensure children receive the USDA requirements each day, and that milk and sides are provided to the youngest campers and available by request for older campers, with Nutrigrain Granola Bars available as a high wheat morning snack. All camp hours from 8:00am–6:00pm, snacks and lunch, and any activities that interest the child are included in the all-inclusive rates, and parents can buy any number of day passes, attend camp any time, and receive automatic full refunds for unused purchased Day Passes at the end of the season. If a Summer Pass is not used enough days to justify the cost, or if a Mentorship Summer Pass is used less than 30 days, the difference from the daily rate is refunded automatically, and unused Mentorship Day Passes are automatically refunded in full at summer’s end.
The Mentorship Program at this camp location is intended exclusively for children ages 14–15 for Summer 2026, and mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation. Campers ramp up and wind down with recreational choices in the early morning and late afternoon. As summer approaches, registered families receive a virtual camp orientation with information about what to bring and not bring, and additional state-required paperwork must be submitted for every child before their first day of camp.
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 at Steve & Kate’s.” Apple’s Hot News states, “If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and 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 “given their philosophy, it’s no surprise so many attend.” The Washington Post describes Steve & Kate’s Camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, and the Chicago Tribune states that “working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.”
Last updated April 30, 2026.