Youth programs are the core of TMI's Appalachia Program. Our signature Mountain Learning programs bring adventure, conservation, and education together in an academically rigorous environment. The many courses offered through these educational programs focus on leadership development and cooperation through hands-on activities and exploring the great outdoors! Many of the schools that we work with have been bringing students to the Spruce Knob Mountain Center since the early 1980s. Our program offerings have changed a great deal since our early years, but our philosophy has remained the same--we believe that bringing students outdoors to experience true hands-on experiential education is one of the best ways for students to learn about themselves, their peers, and their environment. Sir John Lubbock, the 19th century British Biologist, said it best: "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." These courses can be based at our residential education facilities, the Spruce Knob Mountain Center; field-based, in the Monongahela National Forest which surrounds our facilities, or off-site.

For more information about specific programs, please explore the links to the right.