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MAPS Ranked in Top 50 of Afterschool Programs

The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities selected the MAPS Media Institute of Hamilton as one of the top 50 afterschool programs in the nation for providing excellent arts and humanities learning opportunities to young people. Megan Beyer, executive director for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, congratulated the MAPS program. […]

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MAPS Media Institute Offers Students a World of Opportunities

When Peter Rosten, a Hollywood producer with over 30 years of film biz experience, retired to Darby, Mont., in 2002, he noticed the absence of an arts curriculum in the state’s education system and decided that needed to change. In 2004, with $10,000 of his own savings, Rosten founded Maps Media Institute, an after-school arts

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DUI Taskforce and MAPS Media Institute Collaborate on PSA About Over-Serving Alcohol

HAMILTON – Katelyn Lester is the “poster child” for preventing over-service of alcohol at bars and restaurants. Seventeen surgeries and a medical tab that exceeds $1 million prove it. Five years after the automobile collision that almost took her life, Lester is playing an important role in a public-awareness campaign aimed at warning bartenders and

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MAPS Media Institute’s Peter Rosten Joins Montana Ambassadors

The founder and CEO of the MAPS Media Institute in the Bitterroot Valley, Peter Rosten, has been confirmed by Gov. Steve Bullock as the newest member of the Montana Ambassadors. The Montana Ambassadors is a volunteer organization of business and education professionals who work with Bullock, the state Department of Commerce and the Office of

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MAPS Program Wins More Awards for Student Films

The awards keep pouring in for the MAPS Media Institute of Hamilton. They received two 2015 Northwest Regional High School Student Awards for Excellence from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Seattle last weekend. In the Arts and Entertainment category MAPS won for both student productions – “Darby Rodeo” and “Logger Days.”

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