Digital connectors program honors 15

The Connecticut Puerto Rican Forum, Comcast, and One Economy recently honored 15 students who have completed the Comcast Digital Connectors Program. The year-long curriculum trains young people from diverse, low-income backgrounds on how to use broadband technologies and how to put that knowledge to work in their communities. The students received a $500 stipend, personal laptop, flip cam, flash drive, backpack and t-shirt. A $16,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation allowed the organization to upgrade its computer lab. Pictured are, from left, Julio Casiano, president of the Connecticut Puerto Rican Forum’s Board of Directors; Yanil Teron, executive director of the forum; Meredith Ward, Digital Connectors coordinator; Dan Glanville, vice president of government affairs for Comcast’s Western New England Region, and Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra.