ConnectingUS

Ten-year-old Miguel is putting his new digital literacy skills to an unexpected use: writing stories about his need for a brother.

The Forest County Potawatomi Community of Wisconsin had been generating electricity to run its community center using solar panels for years—they just didn’t have an accurate way of tracking their energy usage. Thanks to an Internet for All grant from NTIA, they now do.

Robert Davis, 28, was working in construction but looking for a new career that would still provide the outdoor work he craved.