Welcome
EWB-UW is dedicated to developing socially, environmentally, and ethically responsible students by providing opportunities to interact with different cultures and by raising awareness of the challenges faced by disadvantaged communities.
To learn how you can get involved please peruse the website and stop by any of our meetings. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the officers or project managers.
EWB Sustainability Concert!
Elections! Free Pizza
Postions available:President Vice President Financial Manager Historian Membership Coordinator Publicity and Events Coordinator Webmaster Student Org. Rep.Media Coordinator Fund Raising ChairFund Raising Co-ChairBanquet Manager
See http://www.engr.wisc.edu/news/events/index.phtml?eventid=5246 for more info
EWB Banquet Registration Deadline Extended
The Engineers Without Borders Spring Banquet registration deadline has now been extended until Friday, April 10th. To register and pay, please go to:
www.ewbuw.org/banquet
Nominate yourself and others for EWB Officer Positions 2009-2010
If you're interested in running for a position this year please nominate yourself!
These are the positions:
- President
- Vice President
- Financial Manager
- Historian
- Membership Coordinator
- Publicity and Events Coordinator
- Fundraising Manager
- Banquet Coordinator
- Webmaster
- Student Org. Representative
El Salvador Project Meeting
Rwanda Project Meeting
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We will have a short update on activities (less than 10 min), and talk about our plan for the May assessments. Contact the project managers Julia or Matt (ewb.uw.rwanda.pm@gmail.com) and/or look at the website (http://sites.google.com/site/ewbuwrwanda/) for more information.
Rwanda Project Expo Prep. Meeting
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Rwanda group meeting
5th Annual EWB Banquet
EWB T-Shirts for Sale
We are now selling our Engineers Without Borders T-shirts online! Just go to our "Merchandise" tab at the top. Here is the shirt: 
In case you cannot read it, the back has the names of the villages we are currently working in.
Engineers Without Borders Spring Banquet
The Engineers Without Borders Annual Spring Banquet Registration is now up! The banquet is on Friday, April 17th from 5:00pm-9:00pm at the Madison Sheraton. This event is our primary fundraising event of the year and we would love to have your support! To register, simply click on the banquet tab on the top menu and go through the online registration. If you would like to sponsor the event, you will need to complete this registration by mail. All registration must be completed by Friday, April 3rd. We hope to all of you there!
Banquet Meeting WED 3/4 EWB office area
Hello all EWB members!
As I am sure you all know by now, we will be having our banquet on Friday April 17 from 5-9pm. There will be good food, project presentations (by the two, maybe three groups that can come together with the best ones), the premier of the El Sal documentary made this January, a super cool keynote speaker (I'm excited), and hopefully a bunch of professionals in the Madison area that want to meet YOU and hear about your experiences (a foot in the door perhaps?).
On Wednesday at 8, we'll be talking about what needs to happen now. I know you are all busy, but if we want to keep ourselves afloat, we ALL need to be working on this. Our invites are done, but that does little good if they don't get into the hands of people who want to come! So, please bring some ideas of people who may be interested, especially if you know someone who works for an engineering firm in the region.
The agenda for the meeting will be somewhat as follows:
- Talk about invites, sending, finding people, distribution to pass on to professors/department chairs, etc.
- Discuss the project presentations - who will be doing them, how will we decide?
- What will happen at the banquet - set-up (decorations, getting A/V set, putting together "science fair" type displays), and talk about helping out once we get there.
- We'll need a group who can help put together an agenda (program on paper), nametags, seating arrangements, etc. The Banquet Crack Team!
I assure you, for now this is enough to worry about, not to mention all of the things I forgot.
Please come with a few names and addresses of people who we can send invites to, whether it be family, friends, or just someone you know. This is our chance to show off what we do, so let's get people there we want to share it with!
Thanks, we'll see you there! It's likely we'll have treats :)
Kenya Water and Sanitation Meeting
Our potable water and sanitation group has moved its location to the ECB Break room which is the North-most room on the Mezzanine level.
This group now has three main focuses to work on this semester. The first is to expand upon our slow sand filter knowledge. We will be testing the prototype slow sand filter we built here on campus, perfecting our design, and learning about successful ways to better propagate the idea throughout a village.
Our second focus is working on small scale low cost ways to remove fluoride from their water using materials available to them at little cost in their community.
Our third focus is to get a good idea about the design and cost of a small scale drinking water treatment plant. We are modeling our design after a much larger locally built design we saw while touring the area in Kenya and if we are able to secure funding in the future for this project, we would like to implelment it to provide all of the villagers in Orongo with affordable, safe to drink water.
Kenya General Meeting
During these Kenya General Meetings, we will be presenting what every group has been working on so far, giving general kenya updates and discuss anything else that has importance beyond a single group such as traveling or fundraising. So even if you have not been involved in this project yet, please feel welcome to come out and get to know us!
