{"id":2,"date":"2017-12-14T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:00:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the blog for the UMass Lowell\u00a0alternative capstone class for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/Engineering\/Civil-Environmental\/default.aspx\">civil and environmental engineering<\/a> students, taught during the Fall 2017 semester by Linda Barrington, the service learning coordinator for the Francis College of Engineering and Prof. Onur Apul next semester.<\/p>\n<p>This trip is the latest effort in a series of trips to Haiti led by the group <em>Engineers for Change<\/em>, a student group that aims to make a difference in the world, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/Innovation-Entrepreneurship\/DifferenceMaker\/Meet-the-DifferenceMakers\/BASH.aspx\">BASH (Biodigestor-Aided Solution in Haiti)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/differencemaker\/2017\/02\/07\/team-bash-goes-to-haiti\/\">previous trip in January, 2017 to\u00a0Project Hope (Pwoje Espwa)<\/a>, an orphanage located in Les Cayes, Haiti they discovered how much the orphanage needed a septic system.<\/p>\n<p>This trip is the first step in making that wish a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BiodigesterAidedSolutionsinHaiti\/\">BASH on Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bash-biodigester-aided-solutions-in-haiti\/\">LinkedIn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/Research\/hdsc\/research\/bash.aspx\">Learn more about BASH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the blog for the UMass Lowell\u00a0alternative capstone class for civil and environmental engineering students, taught during the Fall 2017 semester by Linda Barrington, the service learning coordinator for the Francis College of Engineering and Prof. Onur Apul next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/haiti-capstone-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}