{"id":3877,"date":"2010-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2010\/09\/07\/physics-and-engineering-in-the-village\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"physics-and-engineering-in-the-village","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/physics-and-engineering-in-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics and Engineering in the Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Peter Saeta<\/p>\n<p>Are you tired of having your work appreciated? Does it embarrass you when people celebrate your achievements by cheering, singing, and dancing? Yes? Well, then I don&rsquo;t recommend working on a water and solar-power project in Africa. Engineering students Rob Best (&rsquo;10), Isabel Bush, Evann Gonzales, Ozzie Gooen (all &rsquo;12) and I spent 6 weeks installing photovoltaic panels, a solar-powered water pump, and classroom lighting at  the Clay International Secondary School in Ngomano, Kenya. Along the way, we gained new insights into Newtonian gravity, off-grid electrical systems, the challenges of getting things built without the HMC machinist, and how &ldquo;technology divorced from humanity is worse than no technology at all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3877","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}