EDUCATION

"I am very excited about the renewal of this program." This will enable
our office to continue to provide critical pre-college access services
to Montana’s low-income, first-generation students," said Commissioner
Sheila Stearns.

The car was a one-year joint project among seniors working on their capstone-engineering project for graduation and the school’s Society of Automotive Engineers’ club.

The Foster Grandparent Program, for people 60 years of age and older, is a part of the National Senior Service Corps.

“I didn’t have anything else to do in the winter time so I thought it would be nice to help those kids try to read a little bit better,” Gerig said. “They really enjoy it, and I enjoy being with them.”

Enthusiasts, many of them adults, have used it to build robots that sort Lego bricks by color, dispense soft drinks, or climb stairs. One Dane even turned it into a low-resolution scanner that took 3 to 4 hours to scan a CD cover.

Currently, there are only two community colleges in the state, and some lawmakers worry about the lack of options for high school graduates.

A free three-day camp focusing on Yellowstone National Park’s thermal features will be offered for kids 8- to 12-years old in August.

Rolston said he’ll tell his fellow panelists and the audience Thursday that when it comes to the environment there are certain things neither science nor economics can teach, and that people must look to religion or something like it to solve problems.

To continue to improve rural educational outcomes the authors recommend increasing positive family engagement with the schools and social capital, the main factor affecting student achievement.