Undergraduate and graduate students from all areas of study are wanted to compete in a Siemens-sponsored case competition through Engineers Without Borders at Georgia Tech (EWB-GT). Participants will be grouped and charged with designing a durable, efficient and adaptable refugee camp. This is a perfect opportunity for smart, creative HTS students to show those engineers their ideas!
Applicants are teamed up based on their backgrounds and strengths to create a well-rounded group able to consider the engineering, humanitarian, social, and health perspectives of the task at hand.
Through a $15,000 donation from Siemens, EWB-GT will give out monetary prizes in three divisions, to be named at the start of the event; first place in each division will earn $4,000, and second place $1,000. Working with Peacebuilding Solutions, a non-governmental organization, the winning design will be presented to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees this winter and constructed shortly thereafter.
The weeklong competition will commence with an opening ceremony on campus on Sunday, Sept. 25, when students will receive specifications for the refugee camp. Each group will present its design before a panel of judges at an open event on Saturday, Oct. 1, at the College of Management.
There are no minimum requirements for participation; interested students should apply online by Saturday, Sept. 10, either with a group or as individuals.
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Georgia Tech Case Competition Registration
Engineers Without Borders – Georgia Tech
Peacebuilding Solutions
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