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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today is a bonus episode about

camp program that approached me. I thought it was really cool and something that you'd

want to learn about. So I'm interviewing Annie Appel. She's the Chief Marketing Officer at

Galileo Learning and Annie's also a contributor to Huffington Post and a board member

of the San Francisco Hotel Council. So I'm going to let the Chief Marketing Officer tell you

about the camp, but I'll just say that Camp Galileo is a day camp available for pre-K all the way

through 10th grade with 70 locations and there's a focus on art, science, and the outdoors.

There's a program so that kids can be there regardless of socioeconomic status.

It was a cool program so I thought this is an innovation based approach worth sharing with my

listeners. First, I just want to hear your story about what you come to, not your whole life story,

just what your camp story is and why this program is so important. So Galileo, which was launched

in Northern California 20 years ago this year, is a camp program that is focused on not only making

sure that kids have a great fun camp experience that includes all of the, you know, songs,

the activities like lanyards and getting a chance to run around outside. But it's really also

focused on projects that have a curriculum that sometimes kids are even aware that it's happening,

but that's really focused on an innovation approach. And we think about innovation approach here at

Galileo. We think about five ways that we want kids to try and think about working together. So

collaboratively working together as they build really cool projects like amusement park rides or

an excavator on a dinosaur day or a go cart that's one of our big favorites. And we are focused

on helping them be visionary, be courageous, be collaborative, be determined, and be reflective.

And so there's been this, you know, huge investment into the curriculum of camp at Galileo,

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