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With over 180 Universities involved in EWB-USA, the impacts student's impact students have made is far reaching.

Texas A&M's EWB-TAMU chapter won the EWB-USAs "Premier Chapter" recognition for going above and beyond the mission of EWB. A&M students have visited Costa Rica multiple times to gather information about community a communities needs. Then came While back to assess at A&M they spent a year assessing and design designing solutions for those needswith other students and professional engineers, then went back to implement and fulfill their design solutions. Since 2010 A&M has When construction was finsihed they had built a computer education center for studentschildren, and made their the communities water supply drinkable while 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/ website]. [[File:EWB TAMU COSTARICA.jpg|thumb|EWB-TAMU laying down water pipeline system in Costa RicaCOSTARICA.jpg]]<br/><br/> University of Maine EWB-UMaine is well known for their professional work. Not only do they have a strong student involvement, but also of have many professional engineers within the state of Maineworking closely with students involved in their chapter. They are working on a portable water project for the village of Dorgobom, Ghana to make it 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 is making jewelry from Ghanaian beads so that students are able to get a closer picture of where the their time and support effort is going. You can read more about their projects and get in contact with them on their [http://ewbportlandmaine.org/ herewebsite]. [[File:Tate EWBUmain 1.jpg|thumb|Tate EWBUmain 1.jpg]] [[File:Tate EWBUmain 2.jpg|thumb|Tate EWBUmain 2.jpg]]