Montana Education/Business Partnerships

If you know of a business or organization that needs to have a marketing plan developed this semester, please have them contact me as soon as possible.

LaunchPad aims to facilitate the creation of some 150 new businesses in Montana over the next five years.

Jeff Braun, chairman of the computer science department at Montana Tech, said scholarships of $4,000 each will go to 20 incoming freshmen next fall and 20 more freshmen in 2015

The statewide CodeMontana http://www.codemontana.org/ program is free for any Montana high school student to sign up for through April 2014, and is designed to teach computer programming using a self-paced software development curriculum.

K-12 schools don’t know about the employment opportunities in technical careers, so they don’t allow students to explore those options.

During the four-month courses, students will help manage special consulting projects requested by area businesses and non-profit organizations.

On Friday, the survey will be available for artists, art organizations and people involved with arts to fill out.

"Business: Made In Montana" will air at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, and will repeat at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, on MontanaPBS.

"We have an opportunity to have a very vibrant high-tech industry that creates good-paying jobs for our kids," Gianforte said. "But right now we just don’t have enough students graduating with the computer science degrees to fill those jobs."

Thanks Campaign will award $25,000 in grants this fall