Montana Education/Business Partnerships

"At a cultural level, if we are not inspiring our students and inculcating a culture of excellence and helping to give students opportunities to be innovative," Philp said, "we are failing as a community."

The Graduation Matters Stevensville program received $8,000, and high school principal Brian Gum said the school has set a goal of reducing the dropout rate to 2 percent and reducing the number of students who are credit-deficient to 10 students.

"My idea of coaching is to meet students where they are and take them where they want to go. Encourage them to do things they might not do on their own to reach a goal quicker and more efficiently."

"Montana is blessed with such caring and hard working students."

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"About one-quarter of the physicians in Montana are 60 years or older, and they’re likely to retire in the next five years," Vasquez said. "We have this convergence of needing more care with fewer doctors to provide it."

Trevor Hughes, vice president of Add-A-Tudez Entertainment Co., said he and company president Josh Hughes always planned to find a way to help the community through their work. They found it when they received an education grant allowing them to teach elementary school students the basics of computer programming.

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