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- Students learn to manage international engineering projects<br/>- Understand another culture and how to adapt to them<br/>- Escape from behind the desk and apply what you have learned to real world problems<br/>- Lead or follow a project and watch their design pan out<br/>- 5 year commitment where students must continue their work through their peers<br/>- Manage an organization - finances, fundraising, and relationships with faculty and donors

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 visited Costa Rica multiple times to gather information about a communities needs. While back at A&M they spent a year assessing and designing solutions for those needs with other students and professional engineers, then went back 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 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].

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University of Maine EWB-UMaine is well known for their professional work. Not only do they have a strong student involvement, but also have many professional engineers within the state of Maine working 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 their time and effort is going. You can read more about their projects and get in contact with them on their [http://ewbportlandmaine.org/ website]. [[File:Tate EWBUmain 1.jpg|thumb|Tate EWBUmain 1.jpg]] [[File:Tate EWBUmain 2.jpg|thumb|Tate EWBUmain 2.jpg]]