EWB Design Challenge
The EWB NZ Design Challenge is a competition started by EWB NZ in 2008 at the University of Auckland, focusing on fostering an appreciation of real problems faced by communities in the developing world and developing ingenious solutions to address these. It was run as a part of the first year Engineering Design paper at the University of Auckland School of Engineering and involved all first year students. In 2009, it will be run in conjunction with EWB Australia's Design Challenge, and will be available to students from the University of Canterbury and the Auckland University of Technology as well. The challenge will focus on the Tonle Sap in Cambodia and is organised by .
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