{"id":574,"date":"2016-02-17T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/?p=574"},"modified":"2016-02-24T17:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:11:43","slug":"ewb-rpi-featured-in-the-poly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"EWB-RPI featured in The Poly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2010, the Rensselaer Engineers Without Borders chapter was formed and applied for its first project: creating a water treatment system for a community in Panama on Isla Popa II. Since then, the club has selected key members each year to travel over Winter Break to the community. The first three trips involved assessing the community\u2019s situation, and concluding the most important needs. After drafting designs, filling out pages of paper work, and conducting chlorine tests, RPI\u2019s EWB was ready to begin implementing their plans to build a rainwater catchment system. In last year\u2019s implementation trip, they were successful in working in tandem with the community to build such a system. The water collected, however, was not treated. The latest Winter Break\u2019s trip was meant for the creation and implementation of a chlorination system tank to be added to the existing structure&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/poly.news\/2016\/02\/03\/students_install_rainwater_chlorination_system-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2010, the Rensselaer Engineers Without Borders chapter was formed and applied for its first project: creating a water treatment system for a community in Panama on Isla Popa II. Since then, the club has selected key members each year to travel over Winter Break to the community. The first three trips involved assessing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewb.union.rpi.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}