Galileo Summer Quest- San Francisco

Specialties

Our mission: to develop innovators who envision and create a better world.

Something powerful happens at Galileo Summer Camp that doesn’t happen at other camps. Sure, kids have fun. They have a lot of fun. They come home glowing, grimy and wiped out.

But amidst the frenzy, they also learn something with the potential to change them – and the world – profoundly. They learn how to fail. Not in a humiliating or dispiriting way. But in a self-​assured way, that helps turn them into hardy, risk-​taking creators and problem-​solvers.

Multiply that inversion times thousands of kids every summer and you have Galileo’s audacious mission – to nurture and inspire a daring new generation of fearless innovators.

Armed with an innovation process inspired by the Stanford d. school, Galileo instructors facilitate summer activities including hands-​on exploration of science, art and outdoors.

In pre-​K — 5^th grade, at Camp Galileo, campers may build a crude xylophone or design a lion mask.

For 5^th — 8^th graders, at Galileo Summer Quest, they might program their own video game, design their own fashion line, or breathe life into some creation entirely of their own invention.

The products are cool. But the by-​products – supreme confidence and a boldness of vision worthy of our camp’s patron saint – are what will eventually rock our world.

History

Established in 2002.

Before the first Galileo camp in Palo Alto in 2002, there wasn’t much talk in the education arena about design thinking, creative problem solving or innovation strategies. Educators were a lot more focused on academic subjects such as math and literacy.

But Galileo saw things a little differently. They saw a world that needed innovators and problem-​solvers. They also saw a window of opportunity to complement what kids learn during the school year with a new and powerful experience – that of approaching learning fearlessly and creatively as innovators. The window was summer. The place: summer camp. And so Galileo Camps was born.

Today, Galileo operates 70+ innovation camps in California and Chicago. Expanding the impact and inspiring thousands of kids every summer.

Meet the Business Owner

Glen T.

Business Owner

As founder of Galileo Learning, Glen Tripp established the Bay Area’s premier summer camp provider, bringing his mission to inspire a new generation of innovators to hundreds of thousands of kids and educators.

Glen has pioneered the Galileo Innovation Approach, an approach to education adapted from the Stanford d. School that teaches kids to think, learn and tackle challenges as innovators.

A Stanford grad and former Stanford Sierra Camp counselor, Glenn is a frequent speaker and an impassioned champion of innovation education. Before founding Galileo, he served as Vice President of Operations for SCORE! Educational Centers, overseeing their expansion to Southern California and the East Coast and the development of their online presence.

In 2002, Glen founded the first Galileo camp in Palo Alto. Today, he has brought his mission to inspire a new generation of innovators to over 200,000 kids and counting across 70+ camps.