MATR Newsletter – October 1, 2021
The state with the best education wins!

Corona Virus Information

• Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites – Montana reaches 2,000 COVID-19 deaths, with over 100 in the past week

  Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated.

Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunities – Software Developer, Network Administrator, Creative Marketing Manager – Digital, Marketing Communications Manager and more…- Zoot Solutions

  No Suits, Montana Roots At Zoot, our employees are committed to providing the best decisioning engines for the largest financial institutions in the world. Zooters are also committed to passions…

• Montana Career Opportunities – Customer Advocate, Early Childhood Co-Teacher, Merchandiser, Solutions Architect and more… – PFL

  Consumers today much prefer to experience a brand in-person, at the site of their choosing, with full intention. PFL’s immersive, multi-sensory branded moments of delight, delivered at the perfect time…

• Montana Career Opportunities – Data Engineering Technologist, Facility Planner/Project Manager, Support Technologist and more… – Northwestern Energy

  Join our Team The real power behind our company comes from our people.

Montana Department of Commerce

• MSUB and MUS Receive Boost for International Education and Collaboration

  Grant funds will be used to update the Study Montana website by increasing its visibility in multiple world regions. The funds will also support Study Montana’s participation at national conferences.

Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development

• Tourists, residents reminded to ‘Recreate Responsibly’ during the fall season

  With autumn leaves falling and cooler weather moving in, Visit Southeast Montana and the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development (MOTBD) remind visitors and residents to ‘Recreate Responsibly’ when you are Out Here in Southeast Montana.

Northwestern Energy

• NorthWestern Energy commemorates history of more than 100 years of hydro power in Montana with release of ‘Golden Kilowatts’

  It was about 85 years, one lifetime, from 1805 when the Lewis and Clark Expedition made the difficult 18-mile portage around a series of five waterfalls, the Great Falls of the Missouri River, until electricity flowed in the young city of Great Falls, said Montana Historical Society’s Denise King.

Great Falls Development Authority

• City Commission, mayoral candidates discuss economic growth for Great Falls during forum – Billings locals react after City Council Candidate Forum

  Five candidates for the two soon-to-be vacated city commission seats and two candidates for mayor answered questions during a candidate forum hosted by the Chamber of Commerce held at Great Falls College MSU Tuesday evening.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• MEDA (Montana Economic Developers Association) Office Hour Each Month – Join the discussion of the future of Montana’s Economy

  Join us each month for an hour to discuss all sorts of topics – from community to economic development and the tools used to things done for Montana.

• University of Montana Taking Montana Technology Corridor to Next Level

  Once completed, these facilities will not only provide critically needed expansion space for MonTEC, but also the highly technical infrastructure needed by startups working in pharma and other bioscience industries.

Next Generation Broadband in Montana

• Project Brings Wireless Internet Service to Rural Missouri
  A new initiative led by the National Science Foundation, US Ignite and other partners is using RF over fiber (RFoF) technology to bring high-speed wireless broadband service to a rural town in Missouri.

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte

• Gov. Gianforte, Montana State Agencies Blast BLM Over Its American Prairie Reserve Bison Grazing Proposal

  Gov. Gianforte wrote. “Any action that could threaten the stability of Montana’s livestock industry, its ability to market healthy products, or the strength of its socioeconomic fabric deserves to be fully vetted and analyzed in an honest, thorough manner.”

Montana Biotech

• BioScience under the Big Sky – Fall 2021 Newsletter

  The Montana Bioscience Alliance serves as a hub for Montana’s biotechnology companies,
  entrepreneurs, laboratories, hospitals, clinics and universities to commercialize, grow and sustain
  globally competitive bioscience companies — ultimately to create high-quality jobs and economic
  opportunity in Montana.

Funding and Building your Business

• How I Learned How to Say No With Confidence

  For many people, saying no doesn’t come easy–but for effective leaders, it’s a critical skill.

The Creative and Cultural Economy

• Missoula author’s story premiering on Netflix – Maid

  “This show is so authentic. It is real, it shows what it’s like to only have two bucks in your pocket and to live with that amount of insecurity. I wrote my book so people would feel less alone,” Land concluded.

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

• Great Falls College’s cybersecurity program joins consortium to help high school teachers

  “You’re a detective, a good guy,” she said. “But you get to think like a bad guy, the whole ethical hacker thing. You have to be able to think like a criminal in order to get the criminal. It’s really fun.”

Government Technology

• Data Privacy Experts Talk Future of Federal, State Legislation

  Panelists during Forum Global’s Data Privacy Conference this week questioned what the path to a federal data privacy law would look like, and what it would mean for states with policies of their own.

Cool Stuff That’s Coming

• Google search will feel a lot different. These are all the updates coming soon

  “There’s more information accessible at people’s fingertips than at any point in human history,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google, in a blog post. “And advances in artificial intelligence will radically transform the way we use that information.”

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