Steve & Kate's Camp - Minneapolis
Our Lady of Peace Catholic School, 5435 11th Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55417
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Steve & Kate's Camp - Minneapolis offers activities such as stop-motion animation, sewing, baking, sports and recreation, coding, a media lab, robotics, and a tinker lab. Campers can also take part in S&K traditions, weekly specials, water play, a gameroom and lounge, an inflatable bounce house, film projects, building 3D worlds with an interactive virtual reality experience, and using interactive art apps. Additional options include using hand-sewing and machine sewing techniques, a go-kart experience, tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, movement workshops, a popup petting zoo, water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, and giant sprinkler activities.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs June 15–August 14 with long-day options within 8:00am–6:00pm and is closed July 3.
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $88. Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $73. Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,190.
Steve & Kate’s summer day camps have been operating since 1980, when Steve and Kate Susskind started the program. The Minneapolis camp is led by a director named Natalie. The camp’s stated mission is to give kids freedom in the summer by allowing them to choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and to treat this experience as a training ground for being empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions.
The program notes that tasty meals and snacks are included, with milk and sides provided to the youngest campers and available by request for older campers, and that Nutrigrain Granola Bars are available as a high wheat morning snack. Minnesota state licensing requires that staff ensure children receive the USDA requirements each day. Families can buy any number of days and send their child on any camp day, drop off and pick up at any time within camp hours, and receive an automatic refund for unused days at summer’s end. As it gets closer to summer, registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with details on local drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, what to bring, and other camp information.
The camp also offers a Mentorship Program intended exclusively for ages 14–15 at this location for Summer 2026, where mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation, and mentees must attend the camp location they apply for. Any unused Mentorship Day Passes are automatically refunded in full at summer’s end, and if a family purchases a Mentorship Summer Pass and uses fewer than 30 days, the program calculates what would have been paid at the daily rate and refunds the difference automatically.
According to Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, “The children that attend Steve & Kate's blossom and discover a freedom of identity that, in a way, no other institution I've experienced has ever managed. Kids find their thumbprint at Steve & Kate's. My one complaint: Where were they when I was a kid?” Apple’s Hot News states, “If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and Kate’s Camp.” Variety magazine notes that Steve and Kate’s Camp did not set out to cater to the 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 experiences with a modern, tech-focused approach, and the Chicago Tribune states that “Working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.”
Last updated June 27, 2026.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs June 15–August 14 with long-day options within 8:00am–6:00pm and is closed July 3.
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $88. Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $73. Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,190.
Steve & Kate’s summer day camps have been operating since 1980, when Steve and Kate Susskind started the program. The Minneapolis camp is led by a director named Natalie. The camp’s stated mission is to give kids freedom in the summer by allowing them to choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and to treat this experience as a training ground for being empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions.
The program notes that tasty meals and snacks are included, with milk and sides provided to the youngest campers and available by request for older campers, and that Nutrigrain Granola Bars are available as a high wheat morning snack. Minnesota state licensing requires that staff ensure children receive the USDA requirements each day. Families can buy any number of days and send their child on any camp day, drop off and pick up at any time within camp hours, and receive an automatic refund for unused days at summer’s end. As it gets closer to summer, registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with details on local drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, what to bring, and other camp information.
The camp also offers a Mentorship Program intended exclusively for ages 14–15 at this location for Summer 2026, where mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation, and mentees must attend the camp location they apply for. Any unused Mentorship Day Passes are automatically refunded in full at summer’s end, and if a family purchases a Mentorship Summer Pass and uses fewer than 30 days, the program calculates what would have been paid at the daily rate and refunds the difference automatically.
According to Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, “The children that attend Steve & Kate's blossom and discover a freedom of identity that, in a way, no other institution I've experienced has ever managed. Kids find their thumbprint at Steve & Kate's. My one complaint: Where were they when I was a kid?” Apple’s Hot News states, “If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and Kate’s Camp.” Variety magazine notes that Steve and Kate’s Camp did not set out to cater to the 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 experiences with a modern, tech-focused approach, and the Chicago Tribune states that “Working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.”
Last updated June 27, 2026.