Last week, a North Carolina group put computers into the hands of 800 students who are first in their families to attend college. The million-dollar tech push aims to knock down walls that block many from joining the online world. Students at four state schools - Johnson C. Smith, Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, and Winston-Salem State - got the machines from E2D (Eliminate the Digital Divide). At Johnson C. Smith University, freshman Ashlyn Mercer studies computer science. "I do everything on a computer," Mercer said to Spectrum News 1.