March 2010
28 posts
Olancho Aid Volunteer Opportunities →
Olancho Aid is a donor & volunteer driven organization. Please consider volunteering your time with them! It was a great group of people to work with, and I would gladly come down again to help.
-Izzy
electricpowersave asked: Philly dont forget to bring back some hot sauce!
Anonymous asked: How did you do that network topo heat map? I love it!
Ronen@wlanmall.com
Ronen@wlanmall.com
Team SF Arrives Home
Steven Reyna Patricia and I just made it safely back!
We had to stop in LAX because we ran out of fuel, but we made it! Good trip everybody!
James
Just Landed in LAX
Hey Guys,
First group from OC just landed and we are enroute to Irvine to pickup cars. Many <3s to my dad for the pickup.
-Izzy
Leaving Tegus + Updates
From Izzy & Modesto: We are in SAL terminal, our flight was delayed, but it appears we should be coming home soon. Taca Flight 528 - http://flightaware.com/live/flight/TAI528
From Collin:
James,
Wanted to let everyone know that I made it safe and sound to Antigua and met up with my friends. I don´t have the team email on my Gmail, so if you could send this out to everyone...
Audio Update on our Last Day
Our report that explains what our technical and... →
For all those following along, Thank You! I had some requests to give people a bigger picture of what we are actually doing, so this link goes to the report we sent to EWB-USA. Its very detailed and it talks about all the equipment and towers we are making over here.
—James
Day 3 In Review & Pictures
We are getting exhausted.
Its hot. Muggy, and hard work. The tech team has most of the Nazareth site built, and ready to go. Now its getting the endpoint locations lit.
Our biggest challenge is Day 4; connecting the High School.
We did a run through tonight with the light beacon to see if we can see it from the High School. We could not, so we drove around on accessible streets to find where...
Guest Post by Steven Mayers
Arriving in Tegucigalpa on Saturday morning, I hadn´t slept, but felt decent since I was meeting up with the rest of the group for the first time, visiting a new country, and starting off on this project, that is unlike anything I have done. Carlos, the director of the school district, picked us up in a small bus, with his kids – Mario, John-Carlos, and Andres – and we spent some time in the...
Day 2 in Review & Pictures
Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/israel.lopez/HondurasDay2#
We learned a lot today.
Its about 10PM here, and we have done a 18 hour day.
We went to church, did some more interviews, had lunch with the whole team, did a pre-meeting with the project leads, the technical team started pre-wiring the outdoor cat-5e, and the rest of the team members went grocery shopping/preparing dinner.
I...
Day 1 In Review
Hey Everyone,
I want to take a moment and describe what we learned on our first day. Sometimes luggage gets lost, and equipment availability is always suspect.
One of our members, Jennifer, had her luggage lost by Taca, hopefully it arrives for her soon.
The technical team had a heck of a time finding some equipment/hardware, mainly around the grounding equipment, bolts, cables, wire, etc,.
...
Pictures Honduras Day 1 →
Just arrived at SAL
We would upload a video update, but we are having problems with the free wifi at the San Salvador International Airport.
Guess who I met, EWB-USC Group for Honduras. I will post more later!
Gotta jump on the plane.
On the plane
Hey everyone, I just got word that all of our travelling members have boarded their respective flights. Just prepared some interviews with the OC team, going to hopefully upload those in San Salvador. Lets hope that everyone gets there safely and in comfort! Honduras ahoy. -Izzy
T-Minus 24 Hours!
Hey Everyone,
Its about less than 24 hours before we are all due to show up at various airports in the USA to converge in San Salvador, and finally to Honduras.
I wanted to post a few other videos that we have done after our Assessment Trip. Enjoy.
Please make use of the questions box off to the right.
Honduras - Short Trip Summary from Israel Lopez on Vimeo.
EWB-OC: UUASC...
WatchJust talking a little bit about the gear we are taking down.
Honduras!
Hello Everyone, I wanted to let you all know that we are on-track to travel for our final implementation trip. It has been a long year and a half from inception to design to reality. Everyone; the education team, the technical team, and the administrative team have put in countless hours getting the paperwork, fund raising, and design complete for our Education & Technology project. Here...