The RAIN/USDA Rural Utilities Service Internet Bus will be visiting a school, library or Albertsons store near you soon.

Leave a note here if you would like to receive the schedule or request a visit by the Internet Bus.

Training the Doctors, Teachers, Nurses and Community service agenciy staff has become a big part of what we do.

Early on in the Camp Internet project we saw the need for Technology Skills training to be available for teachers and librarians if the curriculum was to be used successfully.

It's been four years of planning and testing, building the most effective Framework for training the Professionals who serve our communities. Our efforts has payed off. We now see RAIN, and the Community Center in Santa Barbara as a yearly Professional Training location.

Each summer teachers come to our lab for 4 days of training and go back to their schools far better prepared to introduce technology into their classroom.

We have been awarded an important Telemedicine planning grant by CTTC, the California Telehealth and Telemedicine Center. The grant will fund a series of Telemedicine Training session are our new computer lab.

Next year sees a valuable change in Camp Internet. Each classroom taking part will have their choice of a GPS unit or a digital camera. Real tools to help the classrooms do projects on the Camp Internet Web.

Congresswoman Lois Capps honored RAIN by speaking at the grand opening for our new Internet Bus. Through the combination of funding from a federal source (USDA RUS), a non-profit (RAIN) and a for-profit Corporation (Albertsons) we are seeing the type of "private sector" / government / community interaction we need.
Remember, if you want more information on the Internet Bus and where it is scheduled to be Write to Us Here
Community Training sessions will be beginning over the next month in Nipomo, Guadalupe, New Cuyama, Piru and Sespe. Leave a note here if you would like to take part.

Community Resources Assessment will begin in March. Each CTAC will begin gathering data for this years GIS and printed Community Report. Community Youth Technology Corps will be taking part, working with new GPS units to help map important Community Resources. Write to Charlie Young, Rural Technology Network Project Manage if you want to take part.


The California Rural Technology Project (your familiar DLT project) welcomed onto the Team at the end of last year Charlie Young. Charlie has brought Spanish as a primary language to the skill base within our rural technology project. He has also demonstrated a remarkable ability to organize and get active CTAC's and Neighborhood Master Technology Families in 9 communities. Working with our schools, libraries and medical clinics, Charlie has taken on a challenging task and made it all work better than ever. Charlie's email is cyoung@rain.org.He likes to hear from you so send a note.

Timothy Tyndall

Gardens in Each of our Communities!

Rural Communities Neighborhood Garden Project 2001 is comming!

Join in! We've got a garden ready to start this spring in your community.
Participating Schools, community centers and neighboorhood Master Technology families will have information for you.