Google Fiber for Communities

Last night, just in the nick of time, the Central-Cocoanut Scavenger Hunters submitted our entry to the Google Fiber for Communities challenge, and we thought you might like to see what we shared.  We hope you'll check it out - As neighborkid Holly says, "It's great, and it's actually funny with the music :) "

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Google Fiber for Communities

Contest Entry Form Questions

If you are responding on behalf of an organization or community group, please describe it:

The Central-Cocoanut Neighborhood Scavenger Hunters are neighbors in Central-Cocoanut, a 50-block area in the Newtown community of Sarasota, Florida. We are a neighborhood of about 1700 people and 500 homes, many with kids. As scavenger hunters, we are on a quest to explore all the great things in our own neighborhood, and to discover how we might increase our sense of connection and belonging in this particular patch of Sarasota that we call home. 

Why should Google build a fiber to the home network where you live? 

Google, we hear you when you say you are on a hunt to discover communities across the country where you can build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks, with Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, to help make Internet access better and faster for everyone. 

We hear you when you say:

• You want to see what “next generation” internet users can do with ultra high-speeds, including uses you can't yet imagine.
• You want to invent and test new ways to build fiber networks, and then share discoveries with the world.
• You want to create an "open access" network where users have choices, with a network managed in an open, non-discriminatory, and transparent way.

The Central-Cocoanut Neighborhood Scavenger Hunters truly are the next generation – “Gen Z” and “Gen A” neighborkids who are already proving to be magnificent explorers, discoverers, inventors, connectors, communicators, internet users and leaders.

The C-C Neighborhood Scavenger Hunters are the WHO you are searching for.

So go ahead and check us out…

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