Find Your Place at the CCLC

For High School Students

Cobscook Experiential Program

Get outdoors, engaged in service-learning projects, and learn directly from people in your community while building leadership, outdoor, academic and personal skills.

For Community

Community Education and Events

The CCLC offers a vast array of programs, events, and opportunities to the people of the Cobscook Bay region and beyond. 

For Educators

TREE: Transforming Rural Experience in Education

TREE seeks to develop a model for transforming schools in rural communities like ours, and to better support the children and families who live here.
 

For Guests

Heartwood Lodge

Heartwood Lodge is a unique facility perfect for retreats, conferences, trainings, events and more. The CCLC also has many indoor and outdoor spaces available for a variety of events.

Welcome to the CCLC

The Cobscook Community Learning Center (CCLC) began in 1999 when a group of people in easternmost Maine joined together to find ways of improving life in this region. Together, we envisioned a hub of educational opportunity. The CCLC is that hub. Our mission is to create responsive educational opportunities that strengthen personal, community, and global well-being.

The CCLC is about community wellness. And that means artistic, physical, economic, ecological and educational wellness. We operate with the values of love, respect, humor, and creative bold adventure. Designed as a tool for social change, the center responds to community needs.

No matter what people come here to do – take yoga, pick up new computer skills, plant a garden, get a high school diploma, start a business, or learn to play piano – they do it all regardless of their ability to pay, and in the context of an enriching, supportive community. 

Stop by anytime. The coffee is on.

News and Updates

Tree delivery! Thanks @fedcoseeds for the trees! Thank you @mainecf for supporting food security in Washington County.
More water quality monitoring photos from our Cobscook Experiential Program for high school students.
Water quality monitoring on the Orange River system today. We went up into Little Lake, enjoyed lunch at a @downeastcoastalconservancy picnic spot, then wrapped up exploring a marsh system. Field science absolutely makes learning fun. #experientialeducation #cobscookexperientialprogram
Swwirl dipping today! Such a cool effect for custom built guitars. Check out the short video to see the process. #stemguitar #cobscookexperientialprogram #streameducation #swirldipped @stemguitar
In case you've been wondering....guitars are coming along! Tomorrow dine students will apply custom swirl dip paint jobs on guitar bodies. Their instruments are really coming along! Thanks @stemguitar and #perlofffamilyfund @mainecf for continued support for the project.
School at Cobscook last Friday. Students are studying water quality parameters and documenting water quality throughout the Orange River Watershed. This is the first of a number of sites we'll monitor this spring. Thanks to @gulfofmaineresearchinstitute for their grant to support this work as well as @maine.epscor. #macroinvertebrates #classroomoutside #citizenscience #cobscookexperientialprogram
Impromptu Cobscook field trip today to see the dead juvenile humpback whale that washed up in Boot Cove. We saw no clear indication of why she died, but we know that humpback whale mortality is up in our area. #experientialeducation #classroomoutside #cobscook #humpbackwhale
All the shingles are up!

Hand Thrown CCLC Mugs

Receive a gift for supporting our Scholarship Fund

Donate to our Scholarship fund, and receive a beautiful handmade mug! 

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