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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Nov 1, 2016 |
Marriage is the nicest way to confront your own inadequacies on a daily basis
Harlem, Montana United F-1 Team Is the Only U.S. Team to Win a World Award. Design Engineer Damon Adams offered Full Scholarship http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Montana Department of Commerce
Montana Code Girls
- USA Today Readers' Choice Awards Highlight Montana Ski Destinations
Montana is listed once for Best Ski Resort, once for Best Cross-Country Ski Resort and twice for Best Ski Town.
Great Falls Development Authority
- Butte-Silver Bow Public Library Announces Partnership with Big Sky Code Academy and Montana Code Girls
New partnership in Butte lays the foundation for free after-school coding programs for kids and future adult coding boot camp initiatives.
Energy and Climate Change
- Here's the GFDA Top 15 for this week, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward.
Vote, Vote Vote! GFDA's Board strongly supports Initiative 181, Montanans for Research and Cures, that would bolster the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, the Montana University System, and research at hospitals and private companies across the state. See Tribune editorial and visit www.MontanaCures.org
"Montana's Race To The Top - The State with the Best Education Wins!"
- Can Elon Musk make solar shingles cool?
Production of the tiles is slated to begin in 2017, Musk says, and will include four options to fit different architectural styles.
- A Colorado Bank Offers a Powerful Case Study for Supporting Solar in Low-Moderate Income Communities
SEIA's Mike Mendelsohn describes a community-solar trifecta that can provide a model for banks.
- The Mediterranean will become a desert unless global warming is limited to 1.5°C
The Mediterranean region is already warming at a more rapid pace than the rest of the world.
Come Home Montana
- Better Connections: Arkansas Rebuilds its Plodding K-12 Network into a Robust Broadband Service
Cisco said, 'Since you are pioneering something, we are willing to put skin in the game and go along with you.'"
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunity - Commercial Loan Portfolio Manager - Great Falls Development Authority
We are a public-private partnership whose mission is to lead Great Falls economic development efforts to promote growth, diversification, and the creation of high wage jobs.
- Montana Career Opportunity - GIS Technician - Lake County, Montana
Must possess a Bachelor's degree in GIS, or a related degree, such as Hydrology or Geography; experience collecting and using GPS technology within a database, and cartographic experience and intuition
- Montana Career Opportunities - Hiring 100 Customer Service Representatives On 11/5 - AT&T/DirecTV Missoula
For the fastest experience, we recommend that you apply online prior to the event and complete the required assessment.
Montana Economic Development
- Great Falls brothers make it big in video game industry - Add-A-Tudez Entertainment
"If you have the right entrepreneurial skills and Internet access, you can build a future for yourself through computer science."
TEDx Events in Montana
- 'A really good thing going': White Sulphur Springs, Montana celebrates five-year revitalization campaign
"If they see that you're building a new school and new highway, they're going to want to move there. You've got to get your city in line before anything happens."
Careers
- This Parody Of Every TED Talk Ever Is Absolutely Perfect
"Let's look at a picture of the planet for no reason. What happens if I put some words over it? How about a number? By doing this, I've now made you think that I know what I'm talking about."
Rural Communities
- The Head of TED Teaches You How to Deliver Talks that Share Powerful Ideas
A carefully crafted talk can be the key to unlocking empathy, stirring excitement, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream.
Idaho Business
- The lost generation of rural Americans
It's important to create a different landscape, create more opportunities for rural kids. They need to be in a position where they can create their own opportunities.
Regional Economic Development
- Chobani to give workers 6 weeks' parental leave
The leave extends to mothers and fathers for the birth, adoption or placement of a foster child into the home.
Wyoming Business
- Immigrants Fuel Innovation. Let's Not Waste Their Potential
These are the people who, in this ugly and alarming political season, have been demonized when they should be welcomed.
Montana Education Excellence
- 'Generation Casper' looks to city's future
"It really needed to be done."
Funding and Building your Business
- Harlem, Montana United F-1 Team Is the Only U.S. Team to Win a World Award. Design Engineer Damon Adams offered Full Scholarship
The 6-member squad is also the first Native American team to ever go to the wold finals, according to their advisor, Craig Todd.
- University of Montana to allocate $1.8M to recruiting, enrollment, marketing
"Everything is lining up, and we're looking solid," Reid said of the approved budget. "We are doing - and will continue to do - re-prioritization across the institution ... regardless of the institution's financial situation."
- When big kids help little ones, everyone's life can change
They unofficially call it the Senior Buddy program. Officially, it's changing lives.
- $4M UM Liberal Arts Building renovation delivers high-tech education
A while back, Dennis Eck stepped into the building at the school he'd graduated from in 1968, according to the UM Foundation. The businessman and philanthropist saw that the classrooms hadn't changed a bit, so he and his wife, Gretchen, donated $4 million to bring modern technology and a better environment to the cornerstone of liberal arts on campus.
Government Technology
- Demystifying Angels for Entrepreneurs
Strategies To Engage Investors Quickly
- Chicago company Mavens shows remote work is the future
Work has transitioned from being a destination to an activity. -- Mavens CEO Prasad Kanumury
- This Old-School Marketing Technique Can Triple Your Responses
It's seen as old-fashioned 'junk mail' by some, but direct-mail marketing is paying off for many entrepreneurs.
- Are small business owners too busy to think about saving for retirement?
Small business owners are just as unprepared for retirement as the rest of us, it turns out. Maybe more so.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- 3 Reasons Some Local Governments are Eschewing Big Tech Vendors for Startups
What used to be multi-million-dollar work is now getting broken down at the local level.
- What Small Cities Should Know About Getting Smarter
Here's how they're doing it.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- The Age of 'Megachange' -- Why It Makes Us So Anxious
If you're wondering why every week seems to bring some new disruption to your world, why once-solid institutions seem shaky, author Darrell West has some explanations.
Transportation
- This start-up believes it can slow the aging process - and Jeff Bezos agrees
Want to hang around on earth a little longer? A Silicon Valley start-up thinks it can help you do that and more comfortably too.
Events
- The Amazing Garage Where Robots Do the Parking
Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered.
- 16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection--And Better Cities
If you think the only purpose of intersections is to move cars past each other, you solve problems like a plumber: with bigger pipes.
- Finally, a traffic light that makes driving better
It's estimated to have cut emissions by a fifth and idling time by more than 40%; driving time is down 25%.
- These Students Are Building the Fastest Solar Vehicle Ever
A team from Cal Poly aims to break the world record with a vehicle that runs directly off sun power -- batteries not included.
- The 'Self-Driving' Vehicle Industry Isn't Taking Our Jobs -- They Create Higher-Paying Ones
"Robotics creates jobs; it doesn't take away from it."
- Autonomous Vehicles Will Be the Biggest Societal Disruptor Since the Internet
"Change is going to happen really, really quick,"
- Microsoft Powerpoint & Publisher Presentation For Beginners, 11/15, Anaconda, Montana
- Community Initiative Update And Broadband Adoption Discussion, 11/10, Webinar
- How Does Broadband Contribute To Economic Development?, 11/16, Webinar
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