Camp Galileo - 2nd-3rd Grades

JOIN CAMP GALILEO FOR A SUMMER OF INNOVATION, FRIENDSHIP AND FUN!Our 2nd and 3rd grade campers are ready to tackle more advanced projects and adventurous challenges, all designed to inspire their quirky curiosity. Camp Galileo grows along with kids, delivering just the right mix of challenge and fun from Kindergarten to 10th grade with locations across Northern California, Southern California, Chicago, Denver, and Seattle.In addition to participating in camp games, ceremonies, skits and songs, rising 2nd and 3rd graders visit three engaging destinations every day, each tailored to their age and designed to unlock the innovation skills they need to thrive.​Innovator's Studio: Where they build creative confidence turning their ideas into individual, polished STEAM projects to take home every week (see project highlights below).Idea Lab: Where they collaborate on daily design challenges, experiment with wild ideas and find out that sending their creations crashing down is all part of the fun—and learning!Outdoor Adventure: Where they play exciting outdoor games, take on team-building challenges with an innovative twist and engage in traditional camp fun, from relay races and tag to lanyards and face painting.SIX WEEKS OF ALL-NEW PROJECTSEvery week at Camp Galileo is a new hands-on adventure in our Innovator's Studio. Kids can choose their favorites from six unique sets of projects—or spend their summer creating them all! INVENTOR'S GARAGE: Transform your inventive ideas into fun, functional reality. Wire up a working vacuum (or blower!), complete with mounted motor and custom handle. Learn construction techniques to craft a super sturdy, uniquely personalized chair strong enough to sit in.TROPICAL RAINFOREST TREK: Explore the wonders of the Amazon rainforest. Design a vibrant symmetrical print to transform into the flapping wings of a tropical bird. Master color and tint mixing to create a leafy scene, then engineer a linkage system to make a curious creature pop out of your forest’s foliage.OUTER SPACE ODYSSEY: Discover the secrets of the final frontier! Make an aerodynamic, air-powered PLOP rocket and an array of watercolor moon targets to launch it at. Fashion foam shapes into an out-of-this-world alien puppet and pick up intriguing space specimens with your own spring-loaded grabber.TOYMAKER'S WORKSHOP: Come out to play for a week of fun and games! Investigate circuitry as you wire up your own spectacular spin art machine. Make a cool swinging-creature toy powered by magnets. Construct a super-strong archery bow to pair with a playful set of arrows and custom targets.CASTLES & KINGDOMS: Embark on a legendary journey to a land of kings, queens and quests. Construct your own castle with strong walls, a working drawbridge and an array of royal buildings. Dream up a kingdom to reign, then create a colorfully decorated crown or festive headpiece to represent it.DINOSAUR PARK: Go prehistoric with fiercely fun projects! Use foam etching and 3D construction to create a colorful dino mask with head crests or horns. Engineer a theropod claw that uses pulleys to grab and grip. Design a rolling dinosaur with a hinged jaw designed to devour.INNOVATION FOR EVERY AGE: Camp Galileo has four age-groups designed to deliver and experience that perfectly balances challenge and fun at every level. 8th-10th graders can join the CIT program!NEBULAS: RISING K-1ST GRADERS STARS: 2ND-3RD GRADERS (this page)SUPERNOVAS: RISING 4TH-5TH GRADERSMETEORS: RISING 6TH – 8TH GRADERSCOUNSELOR IN TRAINING (CIT): RISING 8TH-10TH GRADERS