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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?

     Pipe Flow

Water Project

Surveying Rainwater Catchment Water Conservation January Assessment Trip

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!

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

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

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

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

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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: [email protected]

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 19 th if we win!

Profit shares: next Friday? Reed arena cleanup: December 12 (Sunday study break before finals)

AGGIE 500! SOAPBOX DERBY  EWB

  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 @ [email protected]

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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!

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)

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!

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

Long Term    

Increasing project number Increasing membership

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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