The Wisconsin Idea
UW Students Win United Nations Award
UW–Madison’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders won a prestigious United Nations engineering award for a project that provided a Haitian community with hydroelectric power. The students are working to construct a mini-hydroelectric power generator that will provide three to five kilowatt hours of electricity to a school, library, and church in Bayonnais, Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The UW chapter also sponsors projects in Rwanda, Kenya, El Salvador, and Red Cliff, Wisconsin. For more information about the Haiti project, visit the UW News Web site.