Comments on: Taking the Initiative: The Appalachian Regional Commission http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/taking-the-initiative-the-appalachian-regional-commission Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Joy Howell http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/taking-the-initiative-the-appalachian-regional-commission/comment-page-1#comment-168 Joy Howell Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:05:13 +0000 http://www.nextgenweb.org/uncategorized/taking-the-initiative-the-appalachian-regional-commission#comment-168 Getting more broadband to all parts of the country has to be a priority of the next Administration. We saw the importance of this in our nationwide Broadband Changed My Life! contest. Our second place winner was a college student named Stephen Wooten who grew up near Appalachia and had no interest in going to college until his family got Internet service when he was in high school. Then he said "my mind became the child sponge it once was" and he stayed in his room surfing the net for hours, ultimately realizing he was a smart guy and loved to learn. He wrote to us from his dorm room at Appalachian University, the first person in his family to go to college. Joy Howell, MBA, MPA Director Broadband Changed My Life! Campaign Getting more broadband to all parts of the country has to be a priority of the next Administration. We saw the importance of this in our nationwide Broadband Changed My Life! contest. Our second place winner was a college student named Stephen Wooten who grew up near Appalachia and had no interest in going to college until his family got Internet service when he was in high school. Then he said “my mind became the child sponge it once was” and he stayed in his room surfing the net for hours, ultimately realizing he was a smart guy and loved to learn. He wrote to us from his dorm room at Appalachian University, the first person in his family to go to college.

Joy Howell, MBA, MPA
Director
Broadband Changed My Life! Campaign

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