High School Teen Develops State Web Site

State funded STATIC, Students Teaching Against Tobacco in Connecticut, has a teen's company create its web site.

The first-ever youth-led organization against tobacco in Connecticut, STATIC (Students Teaching Against Tobacco in Connecticut), has hired Walter Kerr, 15, owner of the web site development firm Carson Designs, LLC to design its web site.

STATIC is a program funded by the Department of Public Health (DPH) with the state of Connecticut and strives to educate the public of the harmful effects of smoking and tobacco use. It is a nonprofit organization with the goal "by which the young people of Connecticut may develop a coordinated, unified front against the manipulation and targeting of Big Tobacco."

The group was started last April at a statewide conference held in Colebrook, Connecticut. Since then STATIC has established a statewide communications system and a set of rigid goals to help carry out its mission in combatting tobacco. And what makes STATIC so unique? The organization is run and operated entireley by teens across the state. STATIC felt the next logical step to boost recruitment, post news, and broadcast its message was to attain an online presence.

STATIC's web site was developed by Carson Designs, LLC. Like STATIC, Carson Designs, LLC is run and owned by a teen. Since starting his company in August 2001, Kerr has worked with numerous clients, demands, and the everyday tasks of running a small business. He has designed web sites for an art gallery, various professionals, and a political action committee.

You can check out STATIC's web site at www.ctstatic.org. Or, for more information regarding Walter Kerr and his company you can check out his web site at www.carsondesigns.com.