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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Sep 20, 2016 |
"Private car ownership needs to die" Lyft president John Zimmer is right http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Beyond The Classroom: Building Montana's 21st Century Workforce Symposium, 9/20-21, Butte, Montana http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- Great Falls, Montana businesses support high school-aged workers
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
Montana Politics & Legislature
- Manufacturing Luncheon And Panel To Kick-Off Flathead MFG Day And Events, 9/20, Kalisell
Members of the media are invited to join the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce and partners at its September luncheon featuring the many faces of manufacturing and the economic impact manufacturing has on Flathead County's economy.
Montana Code Girls
- Candidates for Governor of Montana outline goals for state economy, spar over leadership values
Bullock and Gianforte sparred over leadership qualities and ethics as well as policy views ranging from natural resource development and taxation to civil rights and refugee resettlement.
Big Sky Code Academy
- Montana Code Girls Participates White House Computer Science for All Initiative #CSforAll
Montana Code Girls joins over 200 organizations in making a commitment to the White House's Computer Science for All initiative.
- Montana Code Girls joins new White House initiative for computer education
"In his 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the nation to offer 'every student hands-on computer science and math classes,' and Montana Code Girls is doing it," said Holmes. "We're excited to be part of the nationwide response to the president's broad call to action to expand computer science education in K-12 classrooms."
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- The Tech Talent Gap Is Even Larger Than You Thought - Big Sky Code Academy - New Skills. New Job. New Career. New Life!
It's an overall shortage of people who know how to code, whether they're doing back-end on mobile apps or developing cloud-computing platforms.
Energy and Climate Change
- Visit these small Montana towns to get away from it all
Want to sleep in a real bed and savor a cup of coffee made by someone else but still enjoy a quiet weekend free from crowds? Consider an escape to one of these spots.
Come Home Montana
- Tesla to build California utility battery storage project
Southern California Edison selected Tesla to construct the storage project in Riverside County, the company said in a statement.
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunities - Full Time & Part Time Web Development Instructors, Montana Code Girls Program Director - Big Sky Code Academy
Help guide Montana's future coders.
- Montana Career Opportunity - GIS Specialist/Surveyor - City and County of Butte-Silver Bow, MT
This is highly responsible and difficult technical work involving responsibility for the development, management and maintenance of City-County GIS databases and related operations and activities.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Senior Scientist - Adelos
The Senior Scientist will be expected to extend and improve the existing Adelos fiber optic sensor system capability by determining and managing appropriate experiments, testing, and design input for the manufacturing processes and product management teams.
TEDx Events in Montana
- Polson-based Adelos sues Halliburton over technology patent
Adelos, headquartered in Polson, alleges that Halliburton, the oilfield services giant, received proprietary technology information from Adelos under the guise of acquiring the rights to it, but has since tried to pass it off as its own by incorporating the technology into its own products and services, and "secretly" filing patent applications for it.
Careers
- Today's TED Talk - Why some people are more altruistic than others
Why do some people do selfless things, helping other people even at risk to their own well-being?
Rural Communities
- ChickTech Chapter Launching in Missoula, Montana - Looking for Volunteers
ChickTech is a nonprofit dedicated to retaining women in the technology workforce and increasing the number of women and girls pursuing technology-based careers in 12 different cities.
- 5 ways to boost your creativity and improve your mood at work
Hit a slump? Join the club.
Idaho Business
- Helping Rural America Catch Up
The biggest gains have been in the large metropolitan centers, and millions of Americans in rural communities and small Rust Belt towns still feel left behind.
Incubators and R&D
- Idaho's next big step: Accelerate talent pipelines
It is time to reframe our discussion about Idaho's education investment and elevate its importance to our economic future.
Other Economies
- More evidence backs transposon theory of aging
Scientists have shown that potentially related interventions, such as restricting calories or manipulating certain genes, can demonstrably lengthen lifespans in laboratory animals.
Regional Business
- Facebook employee making six-figures quit because Bay Area too expensive
The company's decision to only place engineering offices in expensive areas meant that he and his family were eventually priced out.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- 'It goes well beyond Wells Fargo': Concerns grow over sales tactics in banking industry
We have stories from every bank, one advocacy group says.
- CenturyLink reducing workforce by 7 to 8 percent
CenturyLink says it is cutting more than 3,000 jobs to lower its costs.
Montana Education Excellence
- When we show people that our kids can't do what immigrants can do, they're first stunned and then ashamed.
Over the past generation, the teaching of civics has actually eroded in public schools.
- An Elementary School Has Kids Meditate Instead Of Punishing Them and the Results are Profound
Instead of punishing them or sending them to the principal's office, administrators will now be sending children to "the mindful moment room" where they will be able to meditate and wind down.
Montana Education/Business Partnerships
- Regents OK new data science degree at Montana Tech -- the only such degree in the state
Montana Tech has the go-ahead to offer a new bachelor's degree in data science -- what the Harvard Business Review calls the "sexiest career of the 21st century."
- Empowering Professionals: University of Montana School of Business Administration - Dr. Jakki Mohr
Jakki Mohr, Regents Professor of Marketing and Gallagher Distinguished Faculty Fellow, talks about what sets the University of Montana's School of Business Administration apart.
- MSU raises $20 million to meet Norm Asbjornson match; groundbreaking for Norm Asbjornson Hall set Sept. 22
MSU President Waded Cruzado expressed gratitude to all of the donors who have contributed to the project.
Community
- Great Falls, Montana businesses support high school-aged workers
The United Way of Cascade County-led Graduation Matters Initiative constantly works to increase on-time graduation rates and decrease the number of high school drop-outs.
- Website that helps students with school supplies and other necessities expands to Kalispell
In the first few years, the website has helped about 500 students annually. Wombolt said she is hoping to help 750-1,000 children this coming school year.
Funding and Building your Business
- MissoulaGov listserve provides a vehicle to discuss City Council Issues
A way to inform citizens of issues being discussed by the Missoula City Council.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Elon Musk on technologies that will shape the future
"Stuff doesn't need to change the world just to be good," he said.
- How the Rockefellers' Venture Capital firm Picks Tech Startups
Venrock partner David Pakman said his firm looks for digital business models that can disrupt slower-moving incumbents.
- Push Marketing Has Been Replaced By Pull Marketing
Great content can be used by entrepreneurs to build an audience of potential customers first, before you have a product to sell.
Transportation
- Gearheads - They're baaaack... Jeremy, Richard and James - The Grand Tour Release Date Announced
Since the trio left Top Gear, we've all been waiting anxiously for word on when we'd see them again.
- Lyft's John Zimmer shares his vision for autonomous transportation future
By 2025, private car ownership in US cities will "all-but end."
- Feds want to take over licensing when cars drive themselves
"We're envisioning a future where you can take your hands off the wheel and the wheel out of the car, and where your commute becomes productive or restful rather than frustrating and exhausting," said Jeff Zients, director of the White House National Economic Council.
- Lyft president John Zimmer is right: Private car ownership needs to die
"Carcatecture" - There are 700 million parking spaces in the US. If each space was joined together, it would create an asphalt landmass bigger than the state of Connecticut.
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