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ND SEED (Notre Dame Students Empowering through
Engineering Development) was formed at the University
of Notre Dame when six civil engineering students
decided to combine their academic interests with
service. Working through the non-profit organization
Bridges to Prosperity (B2P)
and following the example
of Continental Crossings, a team from the University of
Iowa, ND SEED’s main goal is to empower a rural Honduran
community by providing it with a footbridge.
The team will be responsible for fundraising the cost of
the project and for designing the bridge with the help
of B2P and the faculty of the Civil Engineering
department at the University of Notre Dame. The project
will also entail traveling to Honduras twice: first for
a site inspection and then for the construction of the
bridge in the summer of 2009.
While the members of the team will receive academic
credit for this project, the driving force behind their
enthusiasm is the ability to aid the developing world by
utilizing their engineering knowledge.
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