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Video – Business leaders address ways to improve and create Montana jobs

September 17, 2013 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

They just need one thing: skilled workers to fill those positions.

"Last spring, Montana State University graduated nineteen computer science graduates. UM graduated eighteen. Tech graduated nine, for a statewide total of forty-four. That’s forty-four jobs for 400 openings. We can do better," said Greg Gianforte, founder of RightNow Technologies, the company that Oracle bought in Bozeman.

He took the stage just before lunch Tuesday. His announcement was the answer to Catz’s challenge; Code Montana http://www.codemontana.org/ .

"Any high school student in the state can sign up on this web address and access a free online, self paced curriculum to introduce them to software development for 90 days." Greg Gianforte

By Grace Ditzler, Butte Reporter, [email protected]

Video: http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/business-leaders-address-ways-to-improve-and-create-montana-jobs/-/14594602/21988736/-/2kg5ifz/-/index.html

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