Kosak was able to show me all the marketing collateral for the project. He designed an attractive flier that he took when he spoke at area schools. At Oil City High School he met a young student who came up afterwards and volunteered. However, this same boy, Brandon Hammond, also recruited a dozen other young people for the project which they called the Technology Gap. There had been other projects with young people: Concerned Youth wanted to build a skateboard park, and when I visited the process was still inching along. One of the lessons the young people were learning was how slow it was to deal with adults in city government. A Diversity Awareness group was started by a college student who, during the early planning meetings, drove four or five hours from Columbus, Ohio, in order to participate. The goal was to include a very diverse team in terms of race, income, age, and to promote diversity awareness. Steve and Dale remarked that it was almost too diverse and had a difficulty time working together.

When the mentoring team was formed, they thought the adults would mentor the young, but instead, the young taught the adults computer and networking skills. At present two youth teams have merged into the Youth Technology Entrepreneurs; some students have left for college, and new ones have joined. Brandon is spearheading an enterprise for nearby Franklin where they hope to set up computer access stations in a restaurant owned by another young man who used a large insurance settlement to start his business. Dale, Steve, and I ate there and it seemed as though the diners, all adults working locally, were much more interested in food than Internet access. I attended a meeting of the youth committee in the Youth Alternatives house in Oil City. Brandon presided over this and explained the problems of getting a satellite connection for the cafe. Other young people dropped in and seemed to be committed in a quiet way to the whole project.