MAPS: ABOUT US


MAPS™: Media Arts in the Public Schools was founded in 2004 and our mission is to educate and create quality jobs for youth. MAPS also encourages entrepreneurship and community based economic development; 40% of our revenue comes from fee-based client services.

To achieve these goals we encourage and develop a student’s creative voice, communication ability and confidence. And by combining these skills with character building tools - teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, problem solving – we are able to deliver a measurable return on human and capital investment.

MAPS: COMMUNITY SUPPORT


To date, MAPS has been exclusive to Montana public high schools. Recently, however, we entered into a partnership with the Montana Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs to open MAPS community-based BGC programs statewide.

This new initiative offers us the opportunity to work with a diverse group of students. The first five locations are Bozeman, Kalispell, the Wolf Point Indian Reservation, Red Lodge and Missoula and assuming our first five clubs replicate the results of our public school programs we will add an additional five locations in 2008.



MAPS: RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) acquired the national broadcast rights to two public service announcements (television and radio) created by MAPS and its Darby High School students.

In addition to the two PSA’s, the MAPS students produced the powerful documentary, “A FATAL ADDICTION”. “A FATAL ADDICTION” depicts the human consequences of smoking as seen through the eyes of terminally ill, life long users of tobacco and DVD’s of the video have been requested by health departments, schools and corporations across the country.

The NASFAA (National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators) hired the MAPS Corvallis program to create and produce a national ad campaign. Starting this December, the NASFAA campaign (television and radio) will air in 38 states. The students produced two ads: one directed at the youth audience, the other to their parents and encourages high school students to go to college and offers options how to pay for it.

Previous MAPS professional assignments include ad and marketing campaigns for the Ravalli County DUI Task Force, the Marcus Daly Hospital and the Montana Student Assistance Foundation.