Camp Galileo's unique approach blends an acclaimed, STEAM-focused curriculum with a fun camp environment, fostering innovation skills and creative confidence through hands-on projects and collaborative challenges.
Camp Galileo (West Loop) offers an engaging summer experience for K-8th graders, focusing on STEAM projects, collaborative design challenges, and outdoor activities. Campers are grouped by grade level (K-1st, 2nd-3rd, 4th-5th, and 6th-8th) with age-appropriate activities. K-5th graders rotate through Innovator's Studio for individual STEAM projects, Idea Lab for collaborative design challenges, and Outdoor Adventure for team games and classic summer fun. Rising 6th-8th graders delve into one immersive, week-long project. The camp emphasizes developing creative confidence, critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving skills, resilience, and perseverance through hands-on learning and a fun, supportive environment. Campers also participate in all-camp games, ceremonies, skits, and songs.
A typical day begins with an all-camp opening ceremony, followed by rotations through Innovator's Studio for STEAM projects, Idea Lab for design challenges, and Outdoor Adventure for games and team challenges, interspersed with snack time, lunch, and camp traditions.
This camp is ideal for students who enjoy hands-on projects, collaborative challenges, and outdoor play, and who are eager to develop their creative confidence, problem-solving abilities, and perseverance.
820 S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
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