Engineers Without Walls
Just Kidding. EWB.
Training meeting, 11/3/2010
How to use a Total Station, and other important things you need to hear
Pura
Vida!
What’s going on
down in Costa Rica?
Water Project
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Pipe Flow
Surveying
Rainwater Catchment
Water Conservation
January Assessment Trip
How can you get involved?
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It’s not too late to join!
Now: plan for assessment trip
Spring: finish designs & plan
for implementation trip
Experienced or inexperience,
everyone has a place
If you have a passion to
serve, we’d love to have you!
Meetings at 7:00 pm, Monday’s, Room CE 104
Acuña Project
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Progress:
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Submitted 525 PreImplementation Report
Next Steps:
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TAC conference
Trip planning and logistics
Community education manual
Scotty’s House
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Site visit to the
construction site of
the new Scotty’s
House
Meeting with
representatives from
SPE, ASLA, and
Scotty’s House
Who’s doing what
Final design to be done
to start in late
November/early
December
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3-2-1 LIFT OFF!
CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
3-2-1 LIFT OFF!
3-2-1 LIFT OFF!
IMPLEMENTATION
WHAT’S NEXT?
WE COMPLETED
DESIGNS FOR PULLEY
SAFARI, JUST HAVE TO
BUILD!
BUT FIRST, A
NEW PROJECT!
WATER CONSERVATION
EXHIBIT:
SAVE SOME
FOR THE FISH!
DESIGN SUBMITTED YESTERDAY
Publicity Committee
CREATIVITY
PICS & FLICKS
LITERARY
ANY TIME COMMITMENT
INNOVATION
Ricky Palacios: publicity.ewbtamu@gmail.com
Fundraising Update!
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Acuna and Scotty’s House helped out and wrote 60
letters last Monday
Everyone clicked the thinger about 100 times, we find out
November 19th if we win!
Profit shares: next Friday?
Reed arena cleanup: December 12 (Sunday study break
before finals)
AGGIE 500! SOAPBOX DERBY
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EWB
COMMONS LOBBY BOOTH!
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Soon! (Next week-ish) We
will have a booth promoting
the Aggie 500! Soapbox
Derby in the Commons
Lobby Area.
Sooooooo, if you want to go
be awesome and talk to
people about it all day…or
just need a break from all
that daunting school work
and feel the need to go
advertise for the BEST event
ever, then please, let Antonio
or Matai know via e-mail @
soapbox.ewbtamu@gmail.co
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Car Testing???
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Our first prototype design
soapbox car is under way!
What’s the next step once we
have it fully built? TEST IT
Sooooo, because we’re so
friendly and awesome, we urge
you to come try it out with us!
If you’re interested…which I
can’t imagine why you wouldn’t
be…then let us know and we’ll
keep you updated so that when
it’s finished! You can come ride
in it!
Recap from first general meeting
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Sign up for Code Maroon (and sit down, bus driver)
Use the career center! Anybody get jobs?
Buy a shirt! We are ordering more for you tiny people
We are active, aren’t we?
Thanks for taking the survey! (it really helps us)
Future Projects
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Belize
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Guatemala
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Community School needs help with water distribution,
designing and pouring a support slab for a windmill for
electricity generation, possibly water filtration, etc.
Primarily Mayan indigenous communities need all sort of help
Lets help them! 501 program start up document!
See me and lets set up a meeting time!
Regional Conference
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Grady Hillhouse and Kate Emery- presenting on Costa
Rica project in front of 3,500 people
Grady Meloy- presenting on fundraising to an empty chair.
9 people signed up for travel
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Travel team will be meeting soon to discuss things.
If you are on travel team see a Grady after the meeting
Long Term
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Increasing project number
Increasing membership
Improving project quality
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VP Project meetings
Lessons learned, transference of knowledge
Development of the organization
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HUGE amount of things here.
The development team is paving the way!
Great job guys