We empower youth to build resilient and sustainable rural communities and healthy ecosystems across the Glacier Peak region of Western Washington through innovative, action-based education programs integrating Science, Technology, recreation, Engineering, art, Mathematics, and skill-building (STrEaMs).

Rural communities like Darrington are teeming with potential, while also facing unique and compounding challenges—from natural disasters to historical underinvestment and lack of resources for youth education, recreation, and community health. Glacier Peak Institute is an outdoor leadership organization that offers immersive outdoor STEM and excursion programs that allow youth to tap their potential.

Through outdoor adventures and hands-on projects, youth develop creative thinking, problem solving, social and technical skills, and expand their environmental and local historical knowledge. By building relationships between rural and urban classrooms, GPI’s programs encourage connection and understanding, break cultural misconceptions and engage youth from across Western Washington as integral parts of their ecosystems. At GPI, we invest in the tools and experiences rural youth need to harness their full potential and directly contribute to the ecological and economic regeneration of their community.