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===New Zealand (2013)===

===New Zealand (2013)===

Project Loon began in June 2013 with an experimental pilot in New Zealand. Thirty balloons were launched, offering fifty individuals in the Christchurch area access to internet.<ref name="nz">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCFc00oejE Project Loon: New Zealand Pilot Test], YouTube.com. Published 2013 June 17. Retrieved 2016 April 20.</ref> They worked with the telecommunications company Telstra.<ref name="india"></ref>

Project Loon began in June 2013 with an experimental pilot in New Zealand. Thirty balloons were launched, offering fifty individuals in the Christchurch area access to internet.<ref name="nz">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCFc00oejE Project Loon: New Zealand Pilot Test], YouTube.com. Published 2013 June 17. Retrieved 2016 April 20.</ref> They worked with the telecommunications company Telstra.<ref name="india"></ref>

===Brazil (2014)===

===Brazil (2014)===

Project Loon tested its technology at Linoca Gayoso, a rural school in Agua Fria, Brazil.<ref name="brazil">[http://www.businessinsider.com/google-project-loon-brings-internet-to-brazil-2014-6 Watch Google's Project Loon Bring Internet To A School In Brazil], BusinessInsider.com. Published 2014 June 24. Retrieve 2016 April 20.</ref> The school had never before accessed the internet, and the school's principal, Silvana Pereira, commented, "It makes no sense that a student in secondary school, almost in high school, has to do what it takes to go to Campo Maior to go to a Cyber Cafe or climb trees to get access to the internet. I need my students to be part of the digital era. This is the only way they're going to grow, not only as students but as human beings, with the ability to contribute knowledge to their community."<ref name="brazil"></ref><ref name="braziltest">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMS2TKVeQVU The Brazil Test], YouTube.com. Published 2014 June. Retrieved 2016 April 20.</ref>

Project Loon tested its technology at Linoca Gayoso, a rural school in Agua Fria, Brazil.<ref name="brazil">[http://www.businessinsider.com/google-project-loon-brings-internet-to-brazil-2014-6 Watch Google's Project Loon Bring Internet To A School In Brazil], BusinessInsider.com. Published 2014 June 24. Retrieve 2016 April 20.</ref> The school had never before accessed the internet, and the school's principal, Silvana Pereira, commented, "It makes no sense that a student in secondary school, almost in high school, has to do what it takes to go to Campo Maior to go to a Cyber Cafe or climb trees to get access to the internet. I need my students to be part of the digital era. This is the only way they're going to grow, not only as students but as human beings, with the ability to contribute knowledge to their community."<ref name="brazil"></ref><ref name="braziltest">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMS2TKVeQVU The Brazil Test], YouTube.com. Published 2014 June. Retrieved 2016 April 20.</ref>

===Central Valley, California===

===Washington State (2014)===

In 2013, Project Loon began calling for volunteers in the California Central Valley, asking for people "who are willing to have a Loon internet antenna installed on their house or small business building to help test the strength of the Loon internet connection."<ref name="ingadget">[http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/20/google-project-loon-testing-california/ Google to test Project Loon in California's Central Valley, begins taking participant applications], InGadget.com. Published 2013 August. Retrieved 2016 April 20.</ref> They tested balloon flights over Fresno.<ref name="ingadget"></ref>

One of Project Loon's balloons crashed in Washington, causing power outages. Google alerted the FAA.<ref name="wa">[http://www.businessinsider.com/project-loon-balloon-crash-2014-6 One Of Google's High-Tech Internet Balloons Crashed], BusinessInsider.com. Publishe 2014 June 3. Retrieved 2016 April 20.</ref>

===India (2016)===

===India (2016)===