MONTANA TECH ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT ACTIVITIES

BUTTE, MT – Montana Tech’s 2024 commencement ceremony will occur on Saturday, May 4, 2024, in the HPER. The university will hold two ceremonies. The first will be at 10:00 am for Highlands College and College of Letters, Sciences, & Professional Studies graduates. The second ceremony will begin at 1:00 pm for Lance College of Mines and Engineering and Graduate School graduates. The university will award 345 degrees and certificates to 322 students.

Chris Wright, founder and chief executive officer of Liberty Energy, will be the commencement speaker. Wright is a self-described tech nerd turned entrepreneur and a dedicated humanitarian on a mission to better human lives. This passion has inspired a career in energy, working not only in oil and gas, but also fusion, solar, and geothermal.

Wright will attend as the first Liberty Energy Scholars graduate from the University. The Liberty Energy scholarships were established in 2019 with a $400,000 gift that will be expended over a 10-year period. The scholarship covers the unmet financial need of Butte students after other scholarships and grants are applied. Since the program’s inception, 31 scholars have been awarded the Liberty Energy Scholarship. Six are graduating.

Amos Taiswa, Ph.D. candidate in Earth Science and Engineering will be this year’s commencement speaker at both ceremonies.

Events leading up to commencement are as follows:

The Line Rodeo will take place on Friday, May 3 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm in the pole yard at Highlands College.

The Order of the Engineer will be held on Friday, May 3 at 5:00 pm in the Library Auditorium. The ceremony will see 75 participants this semester.

The Sherry Lesar School of Nursing will hold its Nursing Pinning Ceremony in the Library Auditorium on Saturday morning, May 4 at 8:00 am. The ceremony symbolizes welcoming newly graduated nurses into the nursing profession. At the ceremony, 23 Bachelor of Science (BSN) students will be presented with nursing pins by Montana Tech Nursing Department faculty.

The ceremony will be streamed live on Montana Tech’s YouTube page. For more information about commencement, please visit https://www.mtech.edu/academics/services/enrollment/commencement/.

The commencement program can be viewed here: https://www.mtech.edu/academics/services/enrollment/graduation/commencement-program.pdf