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• Part One
• Why Is The Rural Broadband Project Important?
• Alisha Proksch, Senior, Ashdown High School

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• Development

• Where we started
• Teams 2
• Focus creating survey
• Now
• Teams 10
• Focus business plans

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The Three Stages

• Survey stage
• Intense Training Camp
• Business plans
• Implementation

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Giant Leaps

• One small step for man, one giant leap for
  mankind Armstrong
• Grant
• Presentations
• Present at AUTIS in June
• Overall growth
• Link to world

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Impact

• Trish
• Further skills in technology
• Unimaginable results
• Alisha
• Helped me decide Major
• Invaluable skills
• Opportunities

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• Part Two
• An Overview Of The Process
• Sydney Selman, Senior, Monticello High School

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Significance

• Public Relations Skills
• Public Awareness
• Educational Potential
• Business Potential

"Conceive it... Believe it... Achieve it..."
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Community Growth

• Public Relations
• Impacted the students community involvement
• Public Awareness
• Increased publics knowledge of technology

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Potential

• Educational Benefits
• High speed internet access at home
• Business Benefits
• Businesses will prosper economically

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Lessons Learned

• Having to work with the public is not always a
  simple task.
• Sometimes its hard when you go out into the
  public with a project to better our community
  when the people are uneducated and therefore
  discourage the progress of your project. Anna
  Newberry

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• Part Three
• The Survey Experience
• Todd Miller, Junior, Foreman High School

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School Surveys

• Presented to School Board
• Did online surveys with EAST classes first
• Passed out paper surveys to a variety of classes

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Community Growth

• Community and business surveys were done
  door-to-door.
• Team of students went out and collected data from
  businesses and residents.

Rural Development Authority
Youngs Thriftway
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Compiling Database

• Video Tutorial
• Helping other schools
• Inputting the data
• Saving data

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Problems Encountered

• Some business were not willing to participate.
• Getting the data base posed a bit of a
  problem.-(sound, numerous files)

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Student Reflections

• This project has given us an opportunity to go
  out into our community and make a difference.
• It has given us chances to talk with our
  students as well as other schools in our area.
• It has given us a sense of pride knowing that
  we can help make a difference.

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• Part Four
• GIS
• Jared Wagnon, Senior, SEACBEC

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• Geographical Data Analysis
• 6 Counties
• 10 EAST Labs
• 3 Days
• University of Arkansas at Monticello

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The Map

• ArcGis / ArcMap
• Geocode / zip 4
• Multiple Layers

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• Bradley County Maps
• Geocoded
• Business and Home survey Data

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• As our nation and classroom become part of the
  global community, it is necessary to ensure that
  everyone is allowed access to the technology that
  is leading us into the future.
• -Alecia Patton, student
• SEACBEC EAST lab

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• Part Five
• Q A
• Team

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