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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

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Pura Vida!

What’s going on down in Costa Rica?

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Water Project Pipe Flow Surveying Rainwater Catchment Water Conservation January Assessment

Trip

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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!

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

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Acuña Project

Progress: Submitted 525 Pre-

Implementation Report Next Steps:

TAC conference Trip planning and

logistics Community education

manual

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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

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3-2-1 LIFT OFF!CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTION

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3-2-1 LIFT OFF!

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IMPLEMENTATION

3-2-1 LIFT OFF!

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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

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Publicity Committee

CREATIVITY

PICS & FLICKS

LITERARY

ANY TIME COMMITMENT

INNOVATION

Ricky Palacios: [email protected]

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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)

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AGGIE 500! SOAPBOX DERBY EWB

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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!

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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)

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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!

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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

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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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