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  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!

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:

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 m

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  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