for that great introduction. Do you mind if I share my screen? I have one slide. I'd like to show. Great. Thank you so much. Let's see. And this is the one. Great. All right. So first of all, thank you all very much for the time again today for those of you that that were here when we first introduced this project back in was that February or so Steve or March or something like that? Something like that. This is sort of an update to that and and to give you further introduction. I'm Brian Carter. I'm a professor in the Africana Studies Department, also the director of the Center for Digital Humanities here at the University of Arizona. And I and a number of colleagues, a very, very talented team of folks put together this grant I for for the NTIA and the the the grant area that we that we were awarded had several stipulations to it that were rather unique. First of all, in order for a university to apply we had to be within any organizations had to be within a 10 mile radius of the university or any of our satellite campuses. So we were very fortunately able to include Natcher, Douglas, and Yuma as part of our satellite, unpossible yaki as our satellite organizations, and then our community partnership is with the Dunbar pavilion here in in Tucson, the Dunbar pavilion being the historically sacred the formerly historically segregated school that has now turned into a community anchor or Community Center here in the historically African American neighborhood. And so we have a lot of very interesting and exciting plans with all of these sites, that that encompass exactly what Steve said both broadband connectivity, which allows for each of these sites to have expanded network access, which will then allow the individuals at those locations to receive STEM programming that previously they were not able to receive as effectively. So we're very fortunate to be able to expand our our programming there, we also hope to be able to expand some of the social sciences and humanities oriented courses to those locations as well. Now that the network and the plant for MDM, the the infrastructure will be available to them. We also are working with our library, which is another rather unique aspect of this, which incorporates the digital inclusion aspect of this grant. We found that we had of course, everyone learned a lot of lessons during the COVID a pandemic. And we found that of course, our students in addition to having lack of access to broadband had lack of access to the computing devices that would allow them to access the you know, the the materials on that broadband network. very fortunately, the our library partner, Travis teeter was able to put together a very, very compelling package that included a technology kit that we're going to be able to distribute to students and in various socio economic income brackets to include, I believe, Pell Grant recipients in they'll be able to keep these kids for their entire academic career as long as they remain in good standing, I believe it is that that kit includes a laptop computer, a router, a webcam, headphones, and other aspects that would allow them to access the other broadband network, both wired and wirelessly, which will allow them for those students to access all of the content that we hope to be able to deliver at the possible yaki site I believe they're working with, with both our network as well as Cox. And then at the Dunbar pavilion, we'll be working with Cox to to expand the broadband access there. Now, the Dunbar pavilion is where we're really excited about the the level and the type of programming that we'll be incorporating because there is where we expand on the digital inclusion aspect of this particular grant. That programming includes workforce development, financial literacy, as well as healthcare oriented courses, but also productivity development, creativity development, as well as being able to have those courses developed and made available to not only the Dunbar community but also the rest of our network in in perpetuity. But using advanced technologies in addition to traditional means of delivery. And when I say advanced technologies, I mean immersive technologies, as well as things like volumetric or holographic technologies, and augmented and virtual reality. So when I think about the ways that maybe a younger demographic might be attracted to those kinds of workforce development oriented courses, we wanted to make them available in in a manner that may be suitable for for a demographic that is more future leaning perhaps or that would at least incorporate the option of taking a course either in a traditional means using perhaps on some sort of learning management system and video, or immersively, if it's suited for that particular course and we'll be using various assessment means to figure out which technologies are most applicable to or most appropriate for the various courses that will be developing within the Workforce Development and financial literacy etc. Here's we're also we're very excited to be working with El Rio health in order to look at some telemedicine options for the community as well. Looking at robots, we have access to a couple of very interesting things. Mobile assistants that are HIPAA certified, so that we'll be able to maybe incorporate some of the telemedicine aspects there, as well as doing things with augmented or holographic technologies. And we're very excited to be working with, with El Rio to, to research some of the more effective ways to to reach communities that that may not necessarily have regular access to health care oriented programming. So being very excited about about stabilizing those sets of courses that we'll make available at Dunbar, which will then distribute to the rest of our network. And keeping in mind that when we first developed this, we weren't just thinking about the, this this particular project in in in sort of a, a capsule so to speak. There's another grant that that the National Science Foundation offers called smart and connected communities. And I understand that there are several other NTIA grants available that have been already awarded here in our state, as well as other initiatives that of course, we have all been made familiar with and and that are emerging that that I think are proving to, to lay a very, very interesting Foundation. And now to connect all these different communities might be a very interesting additional path. We've applied for the smart and connected communities grant in the past and thinking more broadly about how we might now connect these communities with one another, through our broadband networks is really, really exciting for for our team. And hopefully, we'll be able to get some of you involved. I've already met with several of you. And we're very excited for the for the emerging partnerships, to help develop some of the program or be a part of some of the programming that we're developing at Dunbar and for the rest of our network. And I'm definitely open to talking with even more of you about how we can get you involved, if possible in in some of our programming initiatives. So that's the overview of our of our grant, we did run into as he was telling me earlier that other awardees have also experienced the little bit of a delay. And in being able to actually start spending the money we received this grant in January. We were notified of it a few days later. And then it took all the way until maybe, perhaps, April, or May, before we can actually start spending some of the money or before we got permission to spend some of the monies, because of the various paperwork, trails that had to be done and all the things that deal with a large government grant like this, that, that we're that we're learning as we go. We do it under we do understand that, that NTI is also relatively is also relatively new at this. And so they were also learning as as they were going, I think we had a change in program managers. And so I think all of that, now hopefully is is a bit more stable. And we'll be able to go into the new semester with with it with full speed ahead and be able to really do some, some good in the community. So that's our grant. That's an overview of it. And I'd love to entertain any questions that you may have, we were able to get a program manager hired as well as we're looking for site coordinators for these various locations. And we were able to at least get some of the allocations on, expended so that the library could begin purchasing their materials, as well as some of those materials in the in the digital classrooms at our five partner sites. So I'm open for questions. And thank you, Steve for the for the opportunity today.