Innovative Programming
The Steger Center currently offers summer programming focused on skill building, individual empowerment, and environmental stewardship. By 2025, the 5-story Leadership Center will be ready for leaders to gather as it nears ultimate completion in 2027.
The Steger Center continually offers a wide range of evolving and new programs as unique as the Center itself. From individual skills training to youth career empowerment and environmental stewardship, the Center seeks to cultivate a sense of self-reliance, empowerment, and a love for nature among the people we serve.
Leadership Center
The 5-story Leadership Center is a unique space intended for intimate high-level meetings, no larger than 12 leaders. The first floor includes an atrium and main conference room with ample light and space to gather. The second floor provides lodging for guests and space for relationship-building. The third floor provides indoor dining and community spaces, and an outdoor deck that wraps around the building, providing additional spaces for outdoor dining and conversation. The fourth and fifth floors provide break-out, small group discussion spaces. Throughout the building, guests can experience an architectural masterpiece, complete with artisan stained glass, fine woodworking, and stone.
Learn more about a new Leadership Development ProgramSummit Academy Program Skills Development & Empowerment
Blending skill development that can help launch life-changing careers in the trades with a focus on sustainability and environmental stewardship, the Steger Center Summit Academy represents the future in our global economy. Read up on the life changing programs that bring inner city teens and adults to our amazing learning lab in Ely.
LEARN MOREAdvanced Women's Courses Gender Equity and Empowerment
Small groups of up to eight women experience a unique skill-building program focused on timber framing or stone masonry. Participants gain valuable 1:1 mentorship with professionals and construction skills. This program expands personal horizons and contributes to the Steger Center campus.
Program DescriptionDry Stone Masonry Locally-Sourced, Lasting Beauty
The Steger Center has been built, in large part, with resources from our immediate surroundings. This new course for 2023 will teach dry stone masonry skills using locally-sourced Ely Greenstone. Participants will learn unique stone mason skills that can be applied in many ways, while they beautifully blend the Steger Center into our natural setting.
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