Montana Learning Center

The Montana Learning Center at Canyon Ferry Lake provides and promotes quality immersion experiences for all in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) in a unique lakeside environment.

 

In the 1980’s two leading science teachers from Montana began taking students on field explorations in Montana. Little could they know that their legacy would extend decades into the future. The Montana Learning Center was founded by two award-winning Helena science teachers, Gil and Marilyn Alexander. They realized the country’s need for mathematicians, scientists and engineers and knew the importance to teach problem solving and environmental stewardship.

 

The efforts of the Alexanders, called the Montana Science Institute, became the Montana Learning Center at Canyon Ferry Lake, in 2004.  Students have won amazing acclaim. High school students’ accomplishments include national first place winners in the Westinghouse National Science Talent Search, the Intermountain Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, USA Today All American Academic Team, the International Science Fair, as well as numerous regional, state and local awards.