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Engineers Without Walls

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. Pipe Flow Surveying Rainwater Catchment Water Conservation

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Engineers Without Walls

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  1. 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

  2. Pura Vida! What’s going on down in Costa Rica?

  3. Water Project • Pipe Flow • Surveying • Rainwater Catchment • Water Conservation • January Assessment Trip

  4. How can you get involved? • 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!

  5. Meetings at 7:00 pm, Monday’s, Room CE 104

  6. Acuña Project • Progress: • Submitted 525 Pre-Implementation Report • Next Steps: • TAC conference • Trip planning and logistics • Community education manual

  7. Scotty’s House • 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

  8. 3-2-1 LIFT OFF! CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION

  9. 3-2-1 LIFT OFF!

  10. 3-2-1 LIFT OFF! IMPLEMENTATION

  11. 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

  12. Publicity Committee CREATIVITY PICS & FLICKS LITERARY ANY TIME COMMITMENT INNOVATION Ricky Palacios: publicity.ewbtamu@gmail.com

  13. Fundraising Update! • 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)

  14. AGGIE 500! SOAPBOX DERBY • EWB

  15. COMMONS LOBBY BOOTH! • 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.com

  16. Car Testing??? • 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!

  17. Recap from first general meeting • 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)

  18. Future Projects • Belize- • Community School needs help with water distribution, designing and pouring a support slab for a windmill for electricity generation, possibly water filtration, etc. • Guatemala • 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!

  19. Regional Conference • 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 • Travel team will be meeting soon to discuss things. • If you are on travel team see a Grady after the meeting

  20. Long Term • Increasing project number • Increasing membership • Improving project quality • VP Project meetings • Lessons learned, transference of knowledge • Development of the organization • HUGE amount of things here. • The development team is paving the way! • Great job guys

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