NEISD: Local students win challenge with solutions to the digital divide

Five middle school students from Krueger School of Applied Technologies won the third annual SA Smart City Challenge's Mayor's Cup this week. Their project, called the FreeFi Bus, is a mobile internet café with free Wi-Fi, free-use computers, beverage and snack machines. On May 26, the students - Abigail Wessa, Kirsten Scott, Tyler Wilson, Richard Giblin and Hanna Femmel - presented to a panel of local industry and governmental leaders a plan that included funding and implementation. This...