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Montana GEAR UP Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education PO Box 203201 Helena, MT 59620-3201 Phone (406) 444-0056 Fax (406) 444-0425

Sandy Merdinger, GEAR UP Program Director (406) 444-0317

Sara Berg, School Grant Manager (406) 444-0848

Montana GEAR UP website: www.gearup.montana.edu

National GEAR UP website: www.ed.gov/programs/gearup/

GEAR UP
For the past 6 years, Trout Creek students have been involved in GEAR UP; a federally funded program. They have visited colleges in Montana, Idaho, and Washington; visited the capitol in Helena, a ghost town and state parks; participated in testing aimed at helping our students gauge possible vocations and college readiness.

Trout Creek was one of 25 Montana schools chosen to participate in the program. This was determined by our free and reduced lunch program and the number of students we had in our 7th grade class for the 2005-06 school year. Because of changed guidelines from Montana GEAR UP, Trout Creek will not be in the next GEAR UP grant. All of the students that have taken part in the grant as of 2010-11, and are 8th grade students in Trout Creek for this school year, will be eligible to participate in the Achievement Grant and Pathways Scholarship as Juniors and Seniors if they are students at Noxon High School. We, as staff, have learned so much these past six years that will benefit our students for years to come.