Here are a couple highlights from the impact evaluation of the Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit. For more details, check out the Toolkit! Overall, both students and professionals’ biggest takeaway was the complexity of the rural energy resilience problem. Students were especially impressed with the extent and diversity of the stakeholders involved. They saw energy resilience…
2024 Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit
The Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit is an in-person mentoring event and workshop to inspire the next-generation of solvers in rural communities. Involving students in real world challenges for rural communities is one step towards developing new creative solutions – such as identifying new business models, simplifying regulatory processes, and designing new technology that meets the…
1st Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit
As part of S&T’s efforts to further the field of Public Interest Technology, we are hosting our first Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit! For both energy and broadband, technological advancements and societal changes have shifted consumer demands for these technologies. For energy, there is a desire for low-cost, reliable electricity from carbon-free sources like solar and…