The San Jose Mercury News featured Camp Galileo and the expansion of Galileo Summer Quest this week in a great piece that highlights our program and philosophy!
From the article:
Camp Galileo has always been a special place. During the summer, kids come together and science and art collide in a way that makes learning exciting and engaging for campers who don’t even seem to realize that they are learning amid all the fun.
And that’s just how Glen Trip envisioned it when he founded the educational camp in 2002.
“We want to inspire kids to imagine things that don’t yet exist, then give them the tools to make them a reality,” Tripp said. “We’ve created an environment that embraces and encourages creativity.”
Camp Galileo’s “learning made fun” attitude, coupled with its emphasis on science, art and the outdoors has quickly made it the Bay Area’s fastest-growing day camp. Currently, the camp has 21 locations, including, for the past five years, one in Saratoga.
Galileo brings the sciences, arts and outdoors alive with weeklong theme camps, such as adventures in flight, amusement park engineers or ocean expeditions. The camp works in partnership with the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, the de Young Museum in San Francisco and children’s book publisher Klutz to ensure the learning experience is of the highest quality.
“We offer a real academic enrichment, but we’ve wrapped it in a fun environment,” Tripp said.
To read the entire article, including more about the Summer Quest program, go here.