MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools

“To Inspire, Educate, Train and Create Quality Jobs for Montana Youth”

"For our Montana students to be included in this group is indeed an honor." Peter Rosten

MAPS offers both a new challenge – teaching – and the prospect of seeing kids doing some real journalism, complete with lessons in ethics, public records law and diversity of view point.

Says Mike Troxel, VP of Administration: “The Change Happens Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to present the MMI program this grant to train students in professional media production.”

“Our expansion is a stimulus, an economic stimulus that will create jobs,” Rosten said. “We’re trying to do something unorthodox: we’re combining education with the economic. This is education that can create revenue and we can create a public-private partnership and can redefine, reinvigorate, and renew how that partnership works.”

A retired Hollywood producer who took a break from the school film instruction he established in the Bitterroot Valley is preparing to resume that work, and expand it throughout Montana.

“Montana needs economic development,” Rosten said, pointing to the long-term potential of media industry work as a source. “We should encourage growing a media savvy workforce and MAPS is an example of what has been done in the past and what can be done in the future, which is to train a well-educated workforce.”

Peter Rosten also thinks that expansive digital marketplace can foster growth for the economy of Ravalli County.

http://www.mapsmediainstitute.com/ The MAPS Media Institute is committed to providing a rigorous, hands-on program designed to instill a lifelong passion for learning and to equip students with the skills and confidence for academic, social and professional…

“The grant is our seed money,” said Peter Rosten, a former entertainment industry writer, producer and executive who founded the Media Arts in the Public Schools http://www.mediarts.org/ , or MAPS, program at Corvallis High School.