Innovative Programming
The Steger Center currently offers summer programming focused on skill building, individual empowerment, and environmental stewardship. By 2026, the 5-story Leadership Center will be ready for leaders to gather as it nears ultimate completion in 2027.
Leadership Center Developing Purpose-Driven Individuals
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.
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Summit Academy Program Skills Development & Empowerment
The Steger Center Summit Academy course provides on the job skill training in a wilderness environment during one-to-three week capstone courses each summer. This is often the first time many of these adult students have left the Twin Cities metro area and/or spent significant time in a wilderness setting. The Steger Center is dedicated to empowering student leadership to work towards creating an equitable, sustainable, green economy.
Advanced 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. Course tuition is generously offset with scholarships through donations to the Steger Center.
2025 Course
Dry Stone Masonry Locally-Sourced, Lasting Beauty
The Steger Center has been built, in large part, with resources from the immediate surroundings. In dry stone masonry courses, students learn how to work with dry stone without mortar gaining hands-on experience in the art and skill of stone wall construction from selecting native stones (like Ely Greenstone), mixing concrete, placing stones, aesthetic and structural considerations, as well as the choice of tools and materials. Students build something that lasts forever. Course tuition is generously offset with scholarships through donations to the Steger Center.