Native Science Field Center
Welcome & Overview
We offer seasonal informal science education programming for K-12 and serve as a resource center for educators and students. The NSFC staff provides year-round activities such as Blackfeet Skies Astronomy presentations using the portable planetarium and culturally relevant science education field activities/presentations. The center emphasizes STEM learning through “outdoor classrooms” methodology. The NSFC has developed models for field monitoring programming that inventory native species and document their distribution throughout watersheds in the mountains and plains. Storytelling and Blackfeet language are pedagogy used to help participants gain a long-term understanding of stewardship and connection to places.
- Seasonal program for K-12
- Star lab (Portable Planetarium)
- Field monitoring
- Storytelling
Department annual events, activities or functions
- Days of the Piikani
- Bear River Commemoration
- Dual Enrollment
- Piikani Language support
- Sponsored Ceremonial opportunities
Staff Directory
- Helen Augare Carlson,
- Institutional Development Title III Director NSFC Co founder
- (406) 338-5441 Extension 2760
- helen_augare@bfcc.edu
- Melissa Weatherwax,
- Director of Institutional Development
- (406) 338-5441 Extension 2762
- melissa@bfcc.edu
- Justine Momberg,
- Director of Institutional Development
- (406) 338-5441 Extension 2762
- melissa@bfcc.edu