{"65270":{"#nid":"65270","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineers Without Borders Earns Accolades, Fundraises for Cameroon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations go to the Georgia Tech chapter of Engineers Without \nBorders (EWB-GT), which was honored for its creation of a sustainable \nsolar sanitation system at the National Collegiate Inventors and \nInnovators Alliance\u2019s Open Minds competition last weekend in Washington,\n D.C. The team won first place in the event\u0027s video competition and was named runner-up for the People\u0027s Choice award. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group designed a latrine that uses solar energy to inactivate\ndisease-causing pathogens in waste and render it safe to use as fertilizer. The\nproject is a collaboration of EWB-GT students, the Georgia Tech Research\nInstitute (GTRI), Emory University\u2019s Rollins School of Public Health and\ncommunity leaders in Bolivia where the team has worked on installing protoypes\nof the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn many communities, water is too precious to use for\ntransporting waste,\u201d said Kevin Caravati, research scientist at GTRI, which led\nto the group\u2019s investigation of dry sanitation methods. The sanitized waste\n\u201ccan be used as fertilizer for biofuel crops or cotton, but people do use it\nfor food, so we must make sure it\u2019s safe \u2014 that\u2019s where Emory and the Centers\nfor Disease Control help us out.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the solar latrine project, EWB-GT currently\nhas projects in Honduras and Cameroon; on Thursday, April 7, they\u2019re hosting an event\nto recognize \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.worldwaterday.org\/\u0022\u003EWorld Water Day\u003C\/a\u003E, which officially fell during the Institute\u2019s spring\nbreak, with their \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=64964\u0022\u003EMungoa-goa Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E on Freshman Hill. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the challenge, participants will race their friends up the hill while carrying five\ngallons of water to raise awareness for the one billion people who lack access\nto clean drinking water. Donations at the event will go to the Cameroon project\nteam, which plans to travel there this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Cameroon group is ready to really get into\nimplementation,\u201d said Chris Donegia, president of EWB-GT. In December 2010, the\nCameroon group began implementing a water distribution system in the village of\nMungoa-goa by starting the installation of a solar-powered well. \u201cThat\ncommunity is great \u2014 they have a whole list of projects they want to do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEWB as an organization designs and implements sustainable,\ncommunity-driven engineering projects that foster leadership within communities\nand among students. EWB in the United States formed in 2002; the Tech chapter\nemerged three years later.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations go to the Georgia Tech chapter of Engineers Without \nBorders (EWB-GT), which was honored for its creation of a sustainable \nsolar sanitation system at the National Collegiate Inventors and \nInnovators Alliance\u2019s Open Minds competition last weekend in Washington,\n D.C. The team won first place in the event\u0027s video competition and was named runner-up for the People\u0027s Choice award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"EWB was honored for creating a sustainable solar sanitation system."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-03-30 16:50:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:30","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65269":{"id":"65269","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Open Minds Competition Team - Image Courtesy of NCIIA","body":null,"created":"1449176801","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:41","changed":"1475894577","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:57","alt":"Georgia Tech Open Minds Competition Team - Image Courtesy of NCIIA","file":{"fid":"193203","name":"NCIIA_14.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NCIIA_14.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NCIIA_14.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29731,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NCIIA_14.jpg?itok=ZFj4gb3i"}}},"media_ids":["65269"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ewb-usa.org","title":"EWB-USA"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=64964","title":"Munga-goa Challenge"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=emZQS-D58UI","title":"Solar Latrine Project Video"},{"url":"http:\/\/ewb-gt.tumblr.com","title":"EWB-GT blog"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12386","name":"engineers without borders"},{"id":"12385","name":"ewb-gt"},{"id":"169345","name":"solar latrine"},{"id":"169346","name":"sustainable solar sanitation system"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Communications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}