The Galileo Innovation Approach (or “the GIA” for short) is our proprietary three-part framework designed to teach kids to think and create like innovators. We believe all they need is:
Inspired by the Stanford d.school, the legendary Galileo Innovation Approach helps us unlock the innovative potential in every camper
Kids have tons of fun at Galileo camps. But along the way, they also learn something with the potential to change them—and the world—profoundly. They learn how to innovate.
With every STEAM project they create and teamwork challenge they take on, they’re practicing a whole new way to look at the world, to apply what they know and see their endeavors through to the end. Today it’s a perfectly calibrated catapult or a detailed dinosaur costume. Tomorrow it could be a school project or a neighborhood initiative—or a brand-new, game-changing idea the world has never seen before.
The Galileo Innovation Approach (or “the GIA” for short) is our proprietary three-part framework designed to teach kids to think and create like innovators. We believe all they need is:
How innovators approach the world sets the stage for what’s possible. Here are the five mindset elements we help kids develop at camp:
True innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Here are the four types of knowledge we help kids understand to astutely approach new challenges:
Innovators take an active role in shaping their world. We empower kids to transform their ideas into reality using a multi-step process that embraces failure and includes lots of testing, redesigning and testing again: