Mission

To inspire a life-long love of learning through enrichment programs that stimulate intellectual promise, awaken individual creativity, and foster academic achievement.

The Big Idea

The Lyceum of Monterey County has been offering educational opportunities to Monterey County students for more than 60 years. We run annual educational programs, including Mock Trial, Model United Nations, Expanding Your Horizons STEM Conference and Career Fair, History Day and Spelling Bee. These programs offer unique opportunities for participants to do in-depth research throughout the year, and they culminate in conferences and competitions where students get to showcase what they’ve learned.
Programs like Mock Trial and Model UN provide unique life-skills enrichment that gives students valuable experiences that they can draw on throughout their lives. These programs are instrumental to students and help many find career paths, gaining confidence in fields they may not have previously seen themselves doing. They provide incredible peer-learning opportunities and inter-school socialization and camaraderie, as they meet and work with students from many different backgrounds but with whom they share similar interests.

Since our first class in 2014, the Lyceum has been a dependable resource for a variety of meaningful classes supporting and enriching my son's homeschool journey and my own personal interests in the arts. Over the years, my son and I have greatly enjoyed taking many different Lyceum classes together, individually, and with friends.

- Nicole Peartree