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CodeMontana is Impacting Lives With 26,000 Programming Exercises Completed by Montana High School Students

January 21, 2014 /

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January 21, 2014 Bozeman – After launching at the September Economic Development Summit with an ambitious goal of getting 1,000 Montana high school students programming in a year, CodeMontana announced today the program has over 900 participants who have completed over 26,000 computer programming exercises.

CodeMontana is changing lives. Lucas Hamilton in Reed Point now plans to pursue a Computer Science degree at the University of Montana next fall in part due to CodeMontana. Although a senior in high school, he had never written a line of code. CodeMontana changed all that. Now he will be pursuing a career in high-tech. When discussing the program he said, "Thank you for CodeMontana."

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