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Student Group “Engineers for a Sustainable World” Transformed Used Shipping Container into Living Quarters for Orphaned Children Displaced by Tragic 2010 Port-au-Prince Earthquake
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Members of the student group Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been hard at work transforming a used 20-foot steel shipping container into a safe, comfortable, and transportable bedroom for orphaned children in Haiti.

ESW members and other students at Rensselaer spent the past semester designing and building the sustainable bedroom, which will provide secure living quarters, shelter from the weather, and reliable electricity for 11 orphans and their caretakers. Several Rensselaer seniors worked on this project for their capstone design class in the O. T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory.

The sustainable bedroom will be sent to Haiti on May 25. A team of Rensselaer students will travel to Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, in August to install the bedroom at the Orphanage of Good Will and train the caretakers on upkeep and maintenance. This will be ESW’s third trip to Haiti since 2010.

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