The University of North Florida recently honored students with outstanding records of volunteerism and caring spirits, when it handed out more than 1,300 degrees Friday, May 1, during spring commencement.
Also making headlines are five engineering students from UNF, who spent their spring break in Guatemala digging trenches and installing pipes for running water in La Esperanza, a village of 1,000 people.
“To know that we made a change and we were able to bring not just water for the community there that’s existing now but also for the future,” Rosie Pinto said in a joint interview with Action News Jax.
Rosie is a senior studying civil engineering with a focus on coastal engineering. She has also served as Vice President of the UNF American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter.
Rosie hopes to use her knowledge to always benefit humanity and loves the ocean and math.
The all-female group told Lorena Inclán, weekend morning anchor at CBS 47 Action News Jax, that they spent a year preparing for the March 2018 trip, a culmination of their Civil Engineering Senior Capstone Design project.
The project included a trip to La Esperanza to study the soil a few months before their spring break journey.
With the help of their UNF College of Computing, Engineering and Construction professor, Dr. Chris Brown, the student team, which included Rosie, said they designed a system that would provide drinking water to La Esperanza.
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