MAPS (Media Arts in the Public Schools) secures five years of funding
| July 1, 2009 |  View for printing |
The new school year is still a ways off, but pieces to the funding puzzle are falling into place for the MAPS Media Institute http://www.mediarts.org .
MAPS, a program that plans to offer Ravalli County high school students and others a crack at earning professional media arts skills, has received a $575,000 grant to be spread over the next five years.
With funding questions hanging over the program’s projected fall kick start, MAPS founder and president Peter Rosten said he is happy some of the pressure is off.
“This is a big deal - it guarantees that we open our doors this fall,” Rosten said of the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant focused on providing non-school-hours educational outlets for high school aged kids. “We’re very grateful. In the past, I’d wake up every morning thinking, ‘How the hell are we going to pay for all this.’ Now I wake up thinking that every other morning.”
by SEPP JANNOTTA - Ravalli Republic
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