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November
Honor Society Adds Members
Beta Xi Sigma chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for Two Year
Colleges recently gained 14 new members. They are all students working
on a two year degree who have completed 12 credits and have a GPA
of 3.5 or better. Congratulations to the following students who
accepted their invitation to become members of PTK:
Jackie Amescua, Breda Cazer, Kelli Cummings-Hollow, Cathy Eichner,
Kimberly Frank, Jessica Horner, Mary-Evelyn Lawrence, Jessica Morgan,
Joan O'Neill, Ashley Shoemaker, Tassie Smith, Heather Williams,
Elaine Winter, Shezell Wyant.
Line Training Program Open House
Everybody is invited to the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Line Apprenticeship
Training Program. Please join Governor Brian Schweitzer, Commissioner
of Higher Education Sheila Stearns, Chancellor Frank Gilmore and
many others in celebrating this new program. This program is a great
example of the relationship between industry and our College of
Technology. Please plan on attending.
Line Apprenticeship Training Program Grand Opening
Tuesday November 13, 2007
10 a.m.
Commons Area at the College of Technology
Industrial Hygiene Students Attend Conference
Montana Tech Safety, Health and Industrial Hygiene Department Head,
Dr. Terry Spear, and faculty members, Dr. Roger Jensen and Julie
Hart, attended the Northwest Occupational Health Conference in Seaside,
Oregon October 17th through the 19th along with eleven students.
Ms. Hart presented research titled Evaluation of Asbestos Exposures
During Firewood Harvesting Simulations in Libby, Montana.
Four Montana Tech Safety, Health and Industrial Hygiene students
were awarded $500 scholarships by the Pacific Northwest Section
of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. The four recipients
were Marissa Salo, Butte; Michael Faroni, Charlo; Caitlan Baldwin,
Kenai, Alaska; and Josh Pulst, Penn, North Dakota.
Montana Tech students competed against students from the University
of Washington for these awards. Students were awarded scholarships
based on their academic achievements, extra curricular activities
and potential to succeed in their occupational safety and health
careers.
Computer Science Team Competes at National Competition
On October 20th the senior Montana Tech International College Programming
Contest (ICPC) team bested all other ICPC teams in Montana. The
Montana Tech senior tea m
came in second at the University of Utah site and ninth in the ICPC
Rocky Mountain region; a significant improvement over their performance
the previous year. The team members, all seniors at Montana Tech,
were Mikeal Day from Hermingston, OR; Tyler Dusek from Harve, MT,
and Ryan Weis from Kalispell, MT.
The International College Programming contest is run by the major
international professional organization for computer science, the
Association of Computing Machinery. The first contest was held in
1974. The IBM Corporation has been sponsoring this contest since
1997. Since that year participation has grown from 1,000 teams to
6,100 teams from universities in 82 countries on six continents.
The competition challenges students to solve a suite of real-world
computer programming problems under a grueling five-hour deadline.
Teams gain points not only by solving problems, but by how quickly
they solve them. They lose points if they don't get a solution perfectly
correct on the first try. The winning team from each of 90 regions
around the globe will compete in the World Finals in Banaff Springs,
Alberta in April.
Athletic Update
The Montana Tech Football team has improved its record to 7-3 after
winning its last four games. In the four game winning streak the
team has beat MSU-Norhern 17-7 in Havre, Rocky Mountain College
36-7 in Billings, UM-Western 28-21 in Butte, and Eastern Oregon
27-6 in La Grande. The team now controls its own destiny as they
head to Carroll College on Saturday. If they win, they are in. The
team needs to hand Carroll its first lost of the season to advance
to the NAIA football playoffs. The game kicks off at noon, see you
there.
The Montana Tech Volleyball team has wrapped up its regular season
finishing with an 18-8 mark and a third place finish in the conference.
The team finished the regular season by knocking off #23 Westminster
College (3-2), and falling to #20 Lewis-Clark State College (3-0).
The team is now in Billings where they are playing for a berth into
the Regional Tournament. The team faces off against MSU-Northern
today in first round action.
The Montana Tech Men's Basketball team has gotten off to a 1-3
start early in their season. The men lost to the University of Calgary
(73-67) in their first game on Kelvin Sampson Court. The next weekend
the team lost to Black Hills State (84-76) and beat South Dakota
Tech (75-61). The Orediggers are now in La Grande Oregon where they
will take on Eastern Oregon University tonight and Albertson College
tomorrow night. The team will return hom for the Copper Cage Classic
on November 17 and 18.
The Women's Basketball team has gone to 3-3 on the season after
splitting two games in North Dakota and wining one of two at the
Carroll College Tournament. The team returned home to play Walla
Walla College and won 104-51. The teams next 3 games are on the
road against NCAA Division 1 opponents before returning to the confines
of the HPER for four straight home games.
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