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News Release 18-091

NSF announces $24.2 million to support research fueling smart cities and communities

Smart and Connected Communities program supports researchers collaborating with local communities; NSF-WINS Challenge winners apply innovative wireless internet technologies to connect the unconnected

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People boarding bus

Autonomous shuttle bus demonstration conducted on the campus of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Transportation's Autonomous Shuttle Bus Pilot Project.

Credit: Michael McCarthy, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota


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STEMports game participants collect media representations to build augmented reality storylines to educate players about community STEM content and introduce potential STEM workforce opportunities.

Credit: David Gagnon, Field Day Lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison


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Signal tower above trees.

Southern Connected Communities Network (SCCN), an NSF-WINS Challenges winner, uses an 80-foot tower owned by local residents in rural Appalachia to distribute broadband connectivity to local communities using line-of-sight technology.

Credit: Highlander Research and Education Center


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