Hi Jackie!!! Sorry for the delay!!! But thank you for keeping us up-to-date with the meetings. By the way...when is the next meeting..tomorrow? And with the conference..iam not sure..i will have to check it out if i can miss classes those days... Have a Nice Week!! and remember that SWE has Bake Sale this week @ Cook Commons from 11:00 -2:00 p.m Gabriela Quoting Jacqueline Elizabeth Bell <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi Gabriella, > > That's alright I definitely understand. At our meeting we discussed > the international conference. If you want to go, please register > online at www.ewb-usa.org. Its $85 and we will need to pay for it > ourselves upfront and then we will be reimbursed. You will have to > miss class all day thursday and friday. The conference begins early > Thursday morning so we will have to leave for UMASS on wednesday night. > Let me know if you register, you need to do it before March 1st or > else there is an additional $50 charge that will not be covered by our > budget. > We are going to hand out bags of coffee at our next meeting to sell > on our own for $8 and receive total profits. We will also be workign > with feel good to sell grilled cheese and bagel breakfast sandwiches. > We will have one or two guest speakers at our next meeting to discuss > soils and water technologies. (prof. hayden & mandar) > see ya next week! > > Jacquie > > Quoting Alba Gabriela Garay Romero <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Hi Margaret!!! >> >> Thanks in advance for your collaboration...i am curious about sth..why >> they call it the Sister City of Burlington? >> >> By the way...what happened yesterday in the meeting? i haven't read >> news about it. >> >> Gabriela >> >> >> Quoting Margaret McMorrow <[log in to unmask]>: >> >>> I've been out of the office most of today, but I did speak to one of my >>> colleagues who knows the Peace Corps Country Director for Nicaragua and >>> will set you up with a meeting when you visit. I will also ask that >>> they alert the Assistant Director for Water and Sanitation. >>> >>> Again, the idea behind this is just to get a sense of what's going on >>> water-wise in Nicaragua, and make some contacts that could be >>> indispensable when you go down for the project in the summer. They can >>> also help with stakeholder consultation and technology appropriateness >>> questions. >>> >>> Will you have a chance to visit Burlington's Nicaragua sister city, >>> Puerto Cabezas, while you're there? Is this a connection to make here >>> in Vermont? >>> >>> I'll send along some links of resources tomorrow for planning and design >>> of water systems. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Margaret >>> >>> >>> Margaret Ramalho McMorrow, P.E. >>> Staff Associate >>> ARD, Inc. >>> 159 Bank Street, Suite 300 >>> Burlington, VT 05402 >>> 802/658-3890 >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> NOTICE OF PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION >>> >>> This message is intended only for the use of the individual(s) to whom >>> it is addressed and may contain information that is legally privileged, >>> proprietary and/or confidential. If the reader of this message is not >>> the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for >>> delivering the message to the intended recipient, then s/he is hereby >>> notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this >>> message is strictly prohibited. If this message has been received in >>> error, please notify ARD, Inc. immediately. Thank you. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gabriela Garay >> CS Graduate Student Senator >> CSSA Secretary >> SWE Membership Chair >> IEEE-ACM Member -- Gabriela Garay CS Graduate Student Senator CSSA Secretary SWE Membership Chair IEEE-ACM Member