Combined #8th largest ftth project in state fy 2022 with Arvig and park region


North Fergus Project Data

North Fergus Project on the left: $8.4 project: Otter Tail County Broadband Planning App: Copyright - Carter Grupp 

 National Broadband Data Analysis Ranking

Wrote the MN Digital Equity Rankings

Took the 18 fields relative to digital equity data on Power BI work done by Microsoft from ACS, 14th FCC Broadband Report and US Census Data a step further...

Ran 1.3 million records in SQL and Microsoft Access to rate physical internet access across all infrastructure types, and social opportunity. Available per request. Analysis on 2 different queries, digital equity, and physical access at Census Tract level for every county in the USA.

Solution: Northland Hackathon over 30 high schools in the program with around 40 kids last year.

Northland Hackathon Team

SMART Senior MN BEAD

Social non-profit started by me, working actively in West Central Minnesota

1 Planning team (steering committee) Dancing Sky Agency on Aging (22 MN Counties, Otter Tail County, Viking Library System, and Elevate Perham.)

2 communities (Fergus Falls, Perham) New York Mills next

5 volunteers

50+ participants

4 structured subjects with power points ready to go

1 website under development

1 mobile app in development


Pre Course Data (2 courses in Fergus Falls, and Perham taught by me).

 Exit Survey Metrics (Low density due to non-use of email surveys)