Camp Galileo - 4th-5th Grades - Innovation Summer Camp

JOIN CAMP GALILEO FOR A SUMMER OF INNOVATION, FRIENDSHIP AND FUN!Our 4th and 5th grade campers are excited for more sophisticated challenges, cool weeklong projects and plenty of big summer fun. 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 4th and 5th 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! MECHANICAL SCENE MAKERS: Master the art of machine making as you invent an original automaton. Build a cam, cam follower and cam shaft to power your device, then design a unique scene and colorful foam characters that come to life with the turn of a crank.PINBALL WHIZ-KIDS: Put your own twist on a classic arcade game. Learn about levers and fulcrums as you engineer flippers and a spring-powered launcher. Pick a custom theme, then create and decorate ramps, a backboard, bumpers, obstacles, lighting and more to make your game uniquely awesome!TREEHOUSE ARCHITECTS: Get your building skills in tip-top shape as you create the treehouse of your dreams. Use woodcraft and hot-glue skills to engineer an elevated abode complete with a working pulley system and cool custom features like ladders, lookout towers, flower boxes or flags.DAZZLING LIGHT DESIGNERS: Design a luminous accent lamp to brighten any room. Master woodcraft and papier-mache techniques as you construct a 3D frame and layer it with tissue paper to create a colorful shade. Add fairy lights to illuminate it and a strong, stylish stand to support it.ANIMAL BOT BUILDERS: Let your imagination run wild with a robotic cardboard animal you design yourself. Customize your creature with 3D facial features and a textured stamped exterior. Engineer a pneumatic system and attach an offset motor to add elements that make your bot move, articulate or vibrate.SECRET SAFECRACKERS: Lock down your valuables with a safe of your own design. Learn the ins and outs of dial and air-powered lock mechanisms as you decide how to fortify your invention. Decorate—or camouflage!—your super-secure safe and add lights to make the treasure inside sparkle.INNOVATION FOR EVERY AGE: Camp Galileo has four age-groups designed to deliver and experience that perfectly balances challenge and fun at every level. Plus a CIT program for 8th-10th graders!NEBULAS: RISING K-1ST GRADERS STARS: RISING 2ND-3RD GRADERS SUPERNOVAS: RISING 4TH-5TH GRADERS (this page)METEORS: RISING 6TH – 8TH GRADERSCOUNSELOR IN TRAINING (CIT): RISING 8TH-10TH GRADERS