Grades
5-8
Run Dates
June 17-August 2
Britney Brooks
Camp Director
Lafayette
Galileo Summer Quest
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Map - Contra Costa Jewish Day School, 955 Risa Rd, Lafayette, CA 94549
Refer a new family to Galileo Summer Quest Lafayette and they save $100, you get $100* to spend. Learn more.
Session 1
June 17-June 21, 2019
Chefology: Breakfast Club
open
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
open
Go-Kart Builders
open
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Robot Pet
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Session 2
June 24-June 28, 2019
Chefology: Breakfast Club
open
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
almost full
Go-Kart Builders
open
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Robot Pet
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Session 3
July 01-July 05, 2019
Chefology: Breakfast Club
open
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
open
Go-Kart Builders
open
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Robot Pet
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Session 4
July 08-July 12, 2019
3D Modeling & Printing
almost full
Chefology: Decadent Desserts
open
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
open
Go-Kart Builders
open
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Session 5
July 15-July 19, 2019
3D Modeling & Printing
open
Chefology: Decadent Desserts
almost full
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
almost full
Go-Kart Builders
open
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Session 6
July 22-July 26, 2019
3D Modeling & Printing
open
Chefology: Decadent Desserts
open
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
open
Go-Kart Builders
almost full
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Session 7
July 29-August 02, 2019
3D Modeling & Printing
open
Chefology: Decadent Desserts
open
DIY Hoodie
open
Drone Innovators
almost full
Go-Kart Builders
open
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
open
Virtual Reality
open
YouTube Producers
open
Base price
$529.99| Multi-Session Discount | Price per week | Extended Care AM/PM | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 week | n/a | $529.99 | $39.99/$89.99 | |
| Add a 2nd week | $20 off | $509.99 | 30% off | |
| Add a 3rd week | $30 off | $499.99 | 30% off | |
| Add a 4th week (or more) | $40 off | $489.99 | 30% off |
Please note that there is an additional $80 materials fee for these Galileo Summer Quest Majors: 3D Modeling and Printing, Drones, Go-Kart Builders, Robot Pet, and Virtual Reality.
3D Modeling & Printing
Take your designs to another dimension. Learn professional 3D modeling techniques as you design characters, structures or your own personalized creations. Create custom prototypes, use web-based software Tinkercad to model them and watch high-quality Flashforge Finder printers in action as you produce them in class. Gather feedback from your fellow modelers to refine your work. Plan a presentation to share your experience at an end-of-session showcase. Take home your customized files, completed 3D prints and access to modeling software that will help you keep honing your skills after camp.Read important details about this major.
Chefology: Breakfast Club
Take the most important meal of the day and reinvent it your way. Transform traditional morning fare with innovative takes on delectable pancakes and mouth-watering muffins with custom crumb toppings. Infuse fun flavors into your own syrups and jams. Customize and create crunchy granola for the perfect yogurt parfait. Boil and bake your own bagels from scratch. Practice plating, pairing and garnishing like a pro. Create a signature dish by mixing and matching your favorite recipes for an end-of-session feast with family and friends, then take home a cookbook full of breakfast fare you and your fellow chefs created during the week.Read important details about this major.
Chefology: Decadent Desserts
Prime your palate for a brand-new major that's all about sophisticated sweets. Put your inner pastry chef to work on inventive new versions of dessert favorites like cheesecake and pie. Elevate your ice cream-making technique as you create custom frozen treats topped with sumptuous sauces, flavored whipped creams and homemade gummy candies. Whip up an elegant batch of hand-decorated gourmet cookies. Refine your favorite recipes to craft a signature dessert, then take home a cookbook full of sweet treats you and your fellow confectioners created during the week.Read important details about this major.
DIY Hoodie
Turn your cozy vision into custom reality with a hoodie of your own design. Master the basics of machine sewing, then use what you learn to transform soft fleece fabric into your perfect sweatshirt. Create a tailored hood, pockets and cuffs. Add a personalized touch with designs made from heat transfer vinyl. Elevate your apparel with customized features like a headphone channel or thumbholes. Capture your comfy masterpiece in an end-of-session photo shoot, then take home a lookbook full of handsome hoodie designs.
Drone Innovators
Launch into the future of drone technology. Program a Parrot Mambo quadcopter to carry out real-world missions from obstacle course navigation to disaster relief. Learn to modify a drone for manual flight. Design custom attachments to transform your drone into a music video-worthy flying character. Create a performance safety cage to keep it agile and protected during a game of drone tag. Invent an entirely new use for drone technology, then build out and code your drone to fulfill your vision. Demo your innovative idea in a realistic simulated city, then take home videos of your drone in action. Demo your innovative idea in a realistic simulated city at an end-of-session performance, then take home a music video of your drone in action.Read important details about this major.
Go-Kart Builders
Transform a pile of wood, rubber and steel into a rideable reality as you create your own custom go-kart. Learn how to measure twice and cut once, drill pilot holes, handle a handsaw and use a rasp and file. Work with hand and power tools to assemble your kart's wheels and axles, steering column, hood and seat. Dream up an innovative design, crafting functional features like working doors or foot brakes and adding personalized styling with acrylic paints. Debut your kart at an end-of-session show, then roll home in your one-of-a-kind ride.Read important details about this major.
Mystery Room: The Great Escape
Break out of a Galileo-designed escape room, then use what you learn to create your own. Investigate a range of puzzle types and systems for puzzle flow. Experiment with padlocks, simple circuitry, magnets, black lights and invisible ink as you build out the features of your room. Work with a team of fellow room designers to develop clues and interactive objects that lead players to a logical solution. After plenty of testing, invite your friends and family to puzzle their way out of your one-of-a-kind escape room.Robot Pet
Design and build your perfect pet. Use corrugated plastic and Arduino-type microprocessors to breathe animatronic life into any robot animal you can dream up, from puppy to ladybug to dragon. Learn construction techniques and programming basics as you create legs, tails or wings, integrating servo motors to get them moving. Optimize your pet’s senses with an ultrasonic sensor as you teach it to react to the world around it. Introduce your playful pet to friends and family at the end of the session, then take home your own untethered, interactive robot.Read important details about this major.
Virtual Reality
Create your own immersive virtual story. Design a custom VR environment with 3D world-building tool CoSpaces, adding characters and coding simple programs to bring their actions to life. Use Merge VR viewers and high-definition mobile devices to experience your world as if you were standing in it. Focus on your favorite aspect of VR as you shape your original story, testing and perfecting it with help from your fellow world builders. At the end of the week, take home your cardboard VR viewer, plus access to your CoSpaces account and the virtual experience you created—one that anyone with a mobile device can explore.Read important details about this major.
YouTube Producers
Be the star of your own show with a YouTube channel you create yourself. Explore a range of different video styles—DIYs, parodies, screencasts—and make your own version of each. Plan a production schedule, write the script, set up your lighting and shoot your short films in HD, adding special effects as you edit. Create custom thumbnails and channel graphics. Learn how to post your polished pieces and build an audience, then shoot one final video in any style you choose. At the end of the week, share your finished videos with family and friends—and the world.Read important details about this major.