MATR Newsletter – February 27, 2023
The state with the best education wins!

New Method Could Make Charging EV’s While Driving a Reality

The new approach, which takes cues from NASA’s methods for sending data through deep space, could revolutionize EV infrastructures

Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunity – Chief Legal Counsel – Montana Department of Commerce

  The Commerce Director’s Office provides centralized finance, budget, legal, IT, communications and HR services and resources for the Department Divisions and attached boards. This position is the Chief Legal Counsel…

Big Sky Economic Development

• Big Sky Economic Development’s workforce program, BillingsWorks will be implementing the Summer Jobs Program in Yellowstone County this upcoming summer.

  The Yellowstone County Summer Jobs Program matches participants with a paid position, provides a paid foundational work skills training, and connects students with an adult mentor for the summer.

Five Valleys Archery Club

• Archery may have helped humans gain leverage over Neanderthals

  People may have used arrows for hunting in France 10,000 years earlier than previously known.

• Straight 6 Archery in Missoula recognized nationally for impact on the community

  There most recent accomplishment was being recognized nationally with the Archery Trade Association, Archery Impact Award, which is awarded to companies and individuals “who use their voice or platform to inspire others to participate in archery and bowhunting,” according to the ATA.

Flathead Valley Community College

• Tell Us Your Story – FVCC class focuses on live storytelling

  A new non-credit class at Flathead Valley Community College wants to help both experienced and inexperienced students perfect the craft of live storytelling.

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Economic Development Top 10 for 2-26-23

  Here is our Top 10 for this week celebrating work and successes to grow and strengthen the Great Falls regional economy — Montana’s Golden Triangle. And, sharing business resources and skill-building opportunities to empower your success.

Montana Bioscience Cluster Initiative

• World Trade & Investment Day – 5/17-18 – University of Montana, Missoula

  Come join us to celebrate Montana’s successes on the global stage, learn about untapped opportunities, and gather together in celebration of world trade month.

Montana Business

• A Community Vision for Missoula’s Reserve Street – 2/28 – 9AM – Online

  On Feb. 28th 2023, we’ll discuss the vision status, progress, and how we may prioritize projects for Missoula’s busiest corridor with officials.

• Impacts of Developments by the Missoula Montana Airport – May 9 – 9 to10AM – Online

  How are major housing and commercial developments by the Missoula Montana Airport impacting safety and access to the airport? How is the airport meeting the ever-growing demands placed on it by the FAA, airlines, developers, passengers, and parking availability.

• How affordable is child care near me? Search our database of day care prices by county

  One of the largest struggles families in the U.S. face is finding quality child care they can afford. The search for a center or home-based provider can be overwhelming, and the price tag can be shocking.

• Montana Dog Food Company

  This is Big Sky Country, where dogs are fueled so they can enjoy their most fulfilling lives. Welcome to Montana Dog Food Co.® Where adventure begins.™

• Highly Intelligent and Possibly Invincible Super Pigs Are Invading Montana

  Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

• Manufacturing & International Trade Day – 3/16 – Helena, Montana

  This biennial event invites organizations to showcase their business and products at the Trade Show (exhibitors are highly encouraged to bring a product to showcase!). Solution oriented seminars, tailored to specific manufacturing and trade issues, take place during the day.  Held during the legislative session, lawmakers are invited to an evening reception with vendors and seminar attendees.

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte

• What Is ESG Investing—And Why These Republican-Led States Are Trying To Ban It From Retirement Funds

  A slew of Republican-led states are attempting to prevent financial institutions from using state funds for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, which helps screen investments based on socially conscious factors.

Visit Montana

• Montana is literally being loved to death

  Things have changed alright – and you can hear it from just about any long-time Montanan you talk to these days.

Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana

• How to Build a $5 Billion Business Around a Single Pain Point

  In 2012, George Fraser teamed up with his lifelong friend, Taylor Brown, to build Fivetran, which is today a fully managed automated data integration provider, valued at over $5 billion. But it didn’t start out that way. Listening to early customer conversations helped the co-foudners crystallize what was once a much larger vision, whereas Fivetran is built around a single pain point.

Funding and Building your Business

• Venture Capital Funds Are Tight. You Can Still Get Your Share

  A report from DocSend found that the purpose section of pitch decks–one or two sentences outlining the product or service’s essential offer–jumped from the 13th to the third most scrutinized section over the past two years.

Incubators and R&D

• Electronic bandage speeds wound healing and dissolves into body after use

  The days of ripping off a Band-Aid could soon be in the past, with scientists creating a new affordable, flexible electronic covering that not only speeds and wirelessly monitors healing but performs a disappearing act by being harmlessly absorbed into the body when its job is done.

The Creative and Cultural Economy

• Montana actor releases new indie film – “The Year of the Dog”

  Staying true to the rescue theme, five percent of the film’s profit will go to support animal shelters across the country.

21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

• Small town solution for daycare may be a blueprint for other communities.

  More than half of Americans struggle to find available and affordable childcare, but one small Minnesota town found a small solution that might be a blueprint for other cities.

• Neuroscience Says This Simple Food Boosts Memory and Grows Brain Cells. (It Tastes Like Opportunity)
  ‘Boosts nerve growth and enhances memory.’

Utah Business and Economic Development

• Will Utah’s Great Salt Lake disappear? What about the arsenic?

  2.5 Million people are at risk

Transportation

• Tiny 22-lb Hydrogen Engine May Replace the Traditional Combustion Engine

  The company behind the engine claims it overcomes the shortcomings of hydrogen fuel cells.

• New Method Could Make Charging EV’s While Driving a Reality

  The new approach, which takes cues from NASA’s methods for sending data through deep space, could revolutionize EV infrastructures by enabling electric vehicles and autonomous factory machines to charge while driving.

Energy and Climate Change

• Hi-tech fluid makes pumped hydro to generate electricity more affordable

  A company is deploying a first-of-its-kind demonstrator of an advanced long-duration, hydroelectricity storage system

VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things

• Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

  Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives, from self-driving cars to ChatGPT. John Oliver discusses how AI works, where it might be heading next, and, of course, why it hates the bus.

• Experts predict how AI will energize cybersecurity in 2023 and beyond

  AI and machine learning (ML) are becoming attackers’ preferred technologies, from designing malicious payloads that defy detection to writing customized phishing emails.

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