Steve & Kate's Camp - Houston Summer Camp
The Branch School, 11055 Timberline Rd., Houston, TX 77043
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Steve & Kate's Camp – Houston Summer Camp offers activities such as stop-motion animation, sewing, baking, coding, robotics, arts and crafts, and projects with 3D pens. Campers can also explore 3D worlds with an interactive virtual reality experience, use interactive art apps, spend time in a tinker lab, and take part in sports & rec that include classic sports and a go-kart experience. Additional options include tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, archery, water play with water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, a giant sprinkler, and weekly specials such as giant inflatables, musical performances, movement workshops, Mad Science hands-on educational workshops, and a petting zoo.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Camp hours 8:00am–6:00pm, running June 1–July 31 and closed July 3
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $88; Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $73; Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,190; Returning Mentees: $0
The camp’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 are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The program includes a Mentorship Program intended exclusively for children ages 14–15, in which Mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation, using self-directed learning to support Mentees. Steve & Kate’s Camp also notes decades-old traditions such as Find Chuckie—an elusive rubber chicken—and Friday Pie-Day, and offers long camp hours, included meals and snacks, the option for parents to buy any number of day passes and attend any time, and automatic full refunds for unused purchased Day Passes and partial refunds for underused Summer Passes.
The organization describes its history as beginning way back in 1980, when Steve and Kate saw kids’ precious independence slipping away, with Steve wearing denim shorts as a religion and Kate wearing Reeboks to aerobics, and notes that Mike started as a counselor at Steve & Kate’s in 1998. The leadership at this camp location includes Director Shericka. Steve & Kate’s Camp reports having more than 90 locations for camps, and also describes more than 70 locations as islands of freedom from Manhattan to Manhattan Beach. For inflatable slip ‘n slide activities, the camp specifies that campers should bring a labeled swimsuit, towel, and water shoes or sandals to participate. Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp state that children blossom and discover a freedom of identity there, that if kids ruled the world it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp, and that many children of people working at companies like Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend. Additional testimonials describe the camp as blending a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch and say 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, running June 1–July 31 and closed July 3
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $88; Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $73; Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,190; Returning Mentees: $0
The camp’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 are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The program includes a Mentorship Program intended exclusively for children ages 14–15, in which Mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation, using self-directed learning to support Mentees. Steve & Kate’s Camp also notes decades-old traditions such as Find Chuckie—an elusive rubber chicken—and Friday Pie-Day, and offers long camp hours, included meals and snacks, the option for parents to buy any number of day passes and attend any time, and automatic full refunds for unused purchased Day Passes and partial refunds for underused Summer Passes.
The organization describes its history as beginning way back in 1980, when Steve and Kate saw kids’ precious independence slipping away, with Steve wearing denim shorts as a religion and Kate wearing Reeboks to aerobics, and notes that Mike started as a counselor at Steve & Kate’s in 1998. The leadership at this camp location includes Director Shericka. Steve & Kate’s Camp reports having more than 90 locations for camps, and also describes more than 70 locations as islands of freedom from Manhattan to Manhattan Beach. For inflatable slip ‘n slide activities, the camp specifies that campers should bring a labeled swimsuit, towel, and water shoes or sandals to participate. Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp state that children blossom and discover a freedom of identity there, that if kids ruled the world it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp, and that many children of people working at companies like Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend. Additional testimonials describe the camp as blending a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch and say that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.