TRIO hosts successful summer program at Montana Tech with special trip to Washington, D.C.

Twenty high school students from Butte, Anaconda and Helena capped off a five-week immersive, hands-on summer learning and research program at Montana Tech with an action-packed, once-in-a-lifetime trip to Washington, D.C.

TRIO students pose in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. TRIO is a federally funded program that provides academic tutoring, counseling, mentoring, financial guidance, and other support to assist first-generation and low-income students in obtaining post-secondary higher education and career training.

Montana Technological University

The students were the summer 2024 cohort in the TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Upward Bound Math and Science programs. TRIO is a federally funded program that provides academic tutoring, counseling, mentoring, financial guidance, and other support to assist first-generation and low-income students in obtaining post-secondary higher education and career training.

“They spend five weeks with us on campus living in the dorm,” said Theresa Rader, executive director of the Institute for Educational Opportunities. “They take some core classes. They take a math, an English, and a foreign language. They also pair with professors or staff to do real life research. At the end of

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