This week we had our first meeting of the year, starting in grand style in the boyd Orr lecture theatre 1.  It was a very successful evening with lots of new eager faces despite the late announcement of the venue.
Several ice breaking events were run, including our paper tower building competition which is swiftly becoming a bit of a tradition.
A big thank you to everyone who came along and to those who put together the games (and brought biscuits).

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On 2nd April, EWB-GU hosted its first ever all-day training event centred around the theme of WASH (WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene), the new committee having organised, publicised and deployed the surprise series of workshops in less time than is theoretically possible.
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Brian Reed from WEDC (the Water, Engineering and Development Centre at Loughborough University) kicked the day off with a general introduction to WASH, highlighting the holistic and cross-disciplinary approach it promotes, something that is essential to ensure the long-term success of international development projects.
 
 
Vertical axis wind turbines are more uncommon than their horizontal counterpart and so we thought it would be interesting to put together a workshop which would demonstrate a miniature Savonius design in action.
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A wooden frame was erected to provide support and the turbine itself consisted of a split bottle with each half facing in different directions, acting like cups. There were magnets attached to the bottom of the turbine which when rotating passed over the magnet coils below to induce a current. Due to the high resistance of the copper wire we only managed to produce a very small current.


Click the photo to see the rest of the gallery for this event.