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Texas A&M's EWB-TAMU chapter won the EWB-USAs "Premier Chapter" recognition for going above and beyond the mission of Engineers Without Borders. Texas A&M students visited Costa Rica multiple times to gather information about the communities needs in which they would be working. While back at Texas A&M, they spent a year assessing and designing solutions for those needs with other students and professional engineers. After that year, they went back to Costa Rica to implement and fulfill their design solutions. When construction was finsihed they had built a computer education center for children and made the communities water supply drinkable, while simultaneously providing 100 households with access to water. Read more about there experience [http://www.thebatt.com/organization-gains-national-honors-through-global-reach-1.3004318#.UkoXjYZwqSq here]. You can also check out EWB-TAMU's chapter on their [http://ewb.tamu.edu/ webiste].

The University of Maine (EWB-UMaine) is also well known for their professional work. Not only do they have strong student involvement, EWB-UMaine also has many professional engineers within the state working closely with students. EWB-UMaine is working on a portable water project for the village of Dorgobom, Ghana, to make water more accessible and safer to drink. EWB-UMaine has been quite creative in funding this project. They hold many raffles, bi-annual yard sales, bowling events and even a beer and wine tasting. Perhaps their most innovative fundraiser, making jewelry from Ghanaian beads, provided students with the ability to get a closer look of where their time and effort was going. You can read more about EWB-UMaine's projects and reach out to the student team on their [http://ewbportlandmaine.org/ website].