Education

Incline Village is served by three main school systems, Sierra Nevada College

Sierra Nevada College

Sierra Nevada College was founded in 1969 as a private, liberal arts university. It is located in Incline Village, Nevada, and is known for its programs in Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Entertainment Technology, English, Ski Business & Resort Management, and Teacher...

 (private), Incline Elementary, Middle, and High School (public, K–12), and The Lake Tahoe School (private, K–8). Incline High School "We The People" team was recently awarded the "Western Region Award" at the annual 'We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution' competition, held in Washington D.C. This is the sixth time in ten years that Incline High School has been in the competition. Visit the Center for Civic Education website for more information at http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=wtp_introduction.

For up-to-date information on Incline Schools, unique amongst Lake Tahoe schools, check out http://www.inclineschools.org.

Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber

The Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company (SNW&L) was a logging company that operated on the northeast side of Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. At a surface elevation of , it is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is , making it the USA's second-deepest...

 at what is today known as Incline Village, Nevada. Incline Village was named after the incline railway that served the area. SNW&L operated an incline railway, also known as a cable railway

Cable railway

A cable railway is a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains.-Introduction:...

. Timber was required for the mines during the mining boom in the late 1800s of the nearby Comstock Lode

Comstock Lode

The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range. After the discovery was made public in 1859, prospectors rushed to the area and scrambled to stake their claims...

 in Virginia City

Virginia City

Virginia City is a city located in Storey County, Nevada.Virginia City may also refer to:* Virginia City, Montana* Virginia City, Nevada* Virginia City, Virginia* Virginia City , a 1940 film starring Errol Flynn...

. The timber around Lake Tahoe was placed on the incline railway where it was taken up 1400 feet (426.7 m) and then dropped by a gravity flume down the eastern side of the mountains.

Famous residents

• Aaron Rodgers
  Aaron Rodgers
  Aaron Charles Rodgers is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League . Rodgers was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers...
  
   - Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers
• Ed Seykota
  Ed Seykota
  Edward Arthur Seykota is a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets...
  
   — Investment banker; specializes in Commodities and Futures trading
• Mike Love
  Mike Love
  Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He was a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to perform with the band to the present day...
  
   — Member of the Beach Boys
• Michael Milken
  Michael Milken
  Michael Robert Milken is an American business magnate, financier, and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds during the 1970s and 1980s, for his 1990 guilty plea to felony charges for violating US securities laws, and for his funding of medical...
  
   — American financier and philanthropist; Milken was eventually arrested for financial irregularities.
• Joe Francis
  Joe Francis
  Joseph R. "Joe" Francis is an American entrepreneur, known as the founder of GGW Brands which produces the Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild DVD series....
  
   — Founder of Mantra Films, Inc.
  Mantra Films, Inc.
  Mantra Films Inc., or Mantra Entertainment, is a softcore pornography production company created by Joe Francis, chiefly for the production and distribution of the vast United States-based Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild enterprises that he leads...
  
  
• Dave Duffield — Former Chairman of PeopleSoft
• David Coverdale
  David Coverdale
  David 'Jack' Coverdale is an English rock singer, most famous for his work with the his own hard rock band Whitesnake which achieved massive commercial success.-Early life:...
  
   — Founder/Lead Singer of Whitesnake
• Dale Brown
  Dale Brown
  Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
  
   — Novelist; former U.S. Air Force pilot
• Warren Buffett
  Warren Buffett
  Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is...
  
   — American businessman; owned a home here in the 1980s
• Charles H. Moore
  Charles H. Moore
  Charles H. Moore is the inventor of the Forth programming language.- Biography :In 1968, while employed at the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory , Moore invented the initial version of the Forth language to help control radio telescopes...
  
   — Inventor of the Forth programming language
• JP Donovan III - Reigning National Champion XTerra Triathons
  XTERRA Triathlon
  XTERRA is a series of off-road triathlon races, . The XTERRA Global Tour is owned and produced by...
  
  
• Larry Ellison
  Larry Ellison
  Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies. As of 2011, he is the third wealthiest American citizen, with an estimated worth of $33 billion.- Early life :Larry Ellison was born in the...
  
  -CEO of Oracle. Building a house at the east end of Lakeshore Blvd

External links

• Incline Village-Crystal Bay, Nevada is at coordinates 39°14′45"N 119°57′0"W.
• Incline Village Schools, http://www.inclineschools.org