One of the (many) challenges to starting a new project is visiting a country that often none of the team members have been to before. Many of the small villages EWB tends to work with …
Less than two weeks until our first Assessment trip to Cameroon
With our assessment trip less than two weeks away the team has been busy with last-minute preparations. Here are a few photos from a training session where team members practiced GPS operation, water sampling and …
What is the purpose of an EWB assessment trip?
We’ve been posting a lot here about our upcoming assessment trip, but really what is its purpose? What do we hope to accomplish? Princeton University’s EWB student chapter has put together a great video about …
2013: A big year for the Cameroon project
A belated “Happy New Year” to our readers from the Cameroon team! This is going to be a really busy year for us since we’re gearing up for our first assessment trip coming up very …
How does geography affect development?
Over the past couple months I’ve been taking a free online course on Development Economics through Marginal Revolution University, a massively open online course (MOOC) taught by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at George Mason …
EWB founder named State Department Science Envoy
Bernard Amadei, founder of EWB and CU Boulder professor, was recently named one of three new Science Envoys by the United States Department of State. He will “develop connections and bridges between the US scientific …