The communities of Carlisle and Norwalk joined forces to complete the requirement to receive the MIRA grant. They then divided the grant between each other and worked on separate, yet similar projects.

Students in a computer class offered by CLICK

The Carlisle team wanted to increase the community's technological knowledge and make people more aware of the uses of technology within the community.

It was from this desire and the MIRA grant that CLICK (Carlisle Linking Information, Community and Knowledge) was born.

CLICK adopted the MIRA purpose as its own and therefore seeks to draw upon the strength, tenacity, and civic commitment in their rural community to help people use information systems and technology as a tool to meet current and future challenges.

A CLICK computer class in session

As part of the CLICK program to increase community technology awareness, the team sold "CLICK CARDS" through advertising in the newspaper. Each card was used as a pass to six different computer classes in 1999 and two classes in 2000. The program was meant to increase interest in learning more about computer technology and the different activities computers can accomplish, especially among people who were not computer literate or did not have access to computers.

The team was expecting, at most, 100 citizens to take the classes offered through CLICK. The classes turned out to be far more popular than expected. The first round of classes was host to over 200 participants and the citizens are clamoring for more. The team is finding that it is continuing in a capacity of techno-educators for the community past the reaches of the original MIRA program due to the popularity of the classes.

The Carlisle team also created a website for the community that promotes citizen participation in local activities and events and purchased a scanner and computer for the library and had internet services installed there.