Black Pine Circle is a non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1967 and granted tax-exempt status in 1970. It was founded for the purpose of providing quality educational programs in a friendly and open environment. The first program it created was a summer program of small tutorial classes for bright college undergraduates who felt neither inspired nor challenged by the lecture courses of larger institutions. This took place in the high Sierra, where the surrounding trees provided the inspiration for the name of the organization. The Arts & Sciences Workshops were created in 1971 to offer enrichment programs in math, music, art, and languages for elementary-school children who were not being sufficiently challenged by the regular school curriculum. Black Pine Circle Day School was developed out of these specialized workshops into a full-scale elementary school, eventually expanding into the junior high level as well. Along with the development of the school, the Institute for Curriculum Development, now called Black Pine Curriculum Institute (BPCi) was created for the purpose of training teachers and funding new curriculum projects and materials developed by BPC's talented staff. One of the Institute's main purposes has been to create educational resource materials and provide workshops for the educational community at large, for which it has, in years past, received special foundation grants. Some special projects have included the Nebraska Conference on Education, the BPC Math Competition, and the Medieval Pageant & Festival. http://www.bpcinst.org/index.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
History of the Buildings: History of Black Pine Circle FAD Facility for Arts and Drama Upper School Main Building Lower School Main Building The Founders’ Building
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