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Posted by george on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 20:16 in

EWB Weatherization Workshop

EWB is offering a home weatherization training on Saturday, Oct.10 from 12-3pm.  Come join us at 703 S. State St. in Champaign and learn how to reduce your energy consumption.  This will be a hands on activity, so please dress appropriately.  The Green west line lets off at the corner of Neil and Green and it is only a 4 block walk from there.

St. Louis City Museum Trip

There will be a trip to the St. Louis CIty Museum (http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp) on Oct 17 leaving at 12pm and returning late in the evening.  The museum is basically a giant jungle-gym made out of reclaimed materials. Tickets will be $6 if we have more than 15 people, and $10 if we have less than that (plus we will split gas.  We can grab dinner in the city and go see the arch or anything else people would like to do  Please email Kim (kmp122 [at] gmail [dot] com) if you are interested.

Illinois Biodiesel Initiative

IBI will be making biodiesel this week! Come and check out one of the reactions or make soap with us! Education, research, and funding teams will also be meeting this week. Check out our website at biodiesel.illinois.edu for details.

Cameroon Village Water Project Meetings

Reminder--Ntisaw, Cameroon Village Water Project Meetings
Weekly on Wednesdays
7PM in 106B6 Engineering Hall
Contact ewb [dot] uiuc [dot] ntisaw [at] gmail [dot] com for more information

EWB Benefit Concert

Amnesty & EWB Benefit Concert

Date : October 9th, 2009
Time : PM06:00~PM10:00
Venue : HighDive Club ( 51 Main Street, Champaign, IL)
Entrance Fee : $5 ($3 EWB members)
Performers :
-Sunny Choi (UC Hiphop Congress)
-World's First Flying Machine
-Matt Glista
-Caleb B. Cook
-Organic Flow
-Dance 2XS
-FLI (Floor Lovers Illinois)

** Need to Be Age over 19 **

Please contact Yeseul Hwang (yhwang8 [at] illinois [dot] edu) to purchase tickets.

We will be meeting at the EWB office (110A Engineering Hall) at 5:30pm and heading over together as a group.

Guatemala Project Looking for a P.E.

The Guatemala project is looking for a professional engineer to accompany their travel team on a week-long implementation trip this winter.  If you know of anyone who might be interested in concrete or water quality, please contact Kim Parker (kmp122 [at] gmail [dot] com).

EWB T-Shirt Design

EWB is looking for somebody willing to design a new chapter t-shirt for EWB. Please contact Amanda Burns (amanda [dot] burns2 [at] gmail [dot] com) if you are interested. If your design is selected, you will get a free membership to EWB.

Nigeria Project Looking for Professional Mentor

The Nigeria project is looking for a professional mentor to help guide them through the final phases of the project. If you know anyone that is working with water distribution systems in their jobs, please contact Laura Fierce (lfierce2 [at] gmail [dot] com) as soon as possible.

Passive House Institute

The Passive House Institute is looking for student volunteers / workers to help them with producing a video proceeding of their conference in Urbana-Champaign from 10/16-10/17. The times needed are: 
 
8:30-10:30am , 1pm-5:30pm on Friday 10/16
8:30am-12pm , 1pm-5pm on Saturday 10/17
 
If you are interested in working with video camera and editing software, please email David Hsu (fcdavidhsu [at] gmail [dot] com). Monetary compensation is possible.

Burns and McDonnell Grant

Burns and McDonnell is sponsoring a $1000 grant at each college where they recruit engineers. Go online to www.burnsmcd.com/vote, and select EWB. The group with the most votes by October 31 will win $1000. This is an easy way to help EWB raise some money, so take a minute to go to www.burnsmcd.com/vote and vote for EWB!