What Strengthens Community

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A retiring engineer in Australia shares what he’s found strengthens work teams, and in turn how this  applies to strengthening community bonds.

A van for all reasons

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An engineering student talks about the kind of transportation he needed for his busy year of studies, how he found it, and what he designed it to be.

Breaking into Victoria….finding what you need

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Coming to town with no job or friends… and 4 months later finding it all coming together. His first, and most important starting point was coming to Green Drinks. Here’s the first video Greg shot..

Motivations of an engineer

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Graham recognizes the strengths of engineers, and what motivates them.

You are what you believe you can do

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What have you done with what you’ve been given? This retired engineer has always had an eye on new uses of ‘junk’.. What can we do with what we have is a philosophy of life.

Jason Heinrich at Lansdowne Middle School ( 2011)

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Jason Heinrich, Engineer, adventurer, volunteer Jason Heinrich, a junior engineer at DEC Engineering, has traveled a windy path back to Victoria after working and volunteering in Uganda, Rwanda and Abbotsford. As a student, Jason won many academic awards such as

Justin Blanchfield: CSI at Arbutus Global Middle School( 2013)

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Part of Community School Interviews Series: Sustainability in 2013 ‘Public education needs reforms to engage those “special” students who are destined to be the next Steve Jobs (if properly engaged). I love being part of the change.’ – Justin Blanchfield.

Terrence: Surprises and Benefits of UBC student engineering project

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UBC student talks about surprises and benefits of working on this multi year project to build a formula one race car.

Dan: Formula One engineering team

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4th year engineering student talks about an exciting opportunity to build an open wheeled race car.

Part 2: Starting a new life – joining a guild

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Given an introduction to a thoughtful engineer, Nico takes the approach of ‘teach me how to fish”