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ND SEED (Notre Dame Students Empowering through
Engineering Development) was formed in February
2008 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
empowered a rural Honduran community by providing
it with a footbridge.
The team was 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 also entailed
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 received academic
credit for this project, the driving force behind their
enthusiasm was the ability to aid the developing world
by utilizing their engineering knowledge.
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