The Village Drill, Five Years Later
Year: 2018
Award Level: Bronze
Award Winner(s): Brigham Young University
Award: Circle of Excellence
Category: Video | News and Research
About the entry
This news feature is a follow-up story about an innovative water well drill that was designed by a group of BYU students and that has now brought water to hundreds of thousands of people.
From the Judges' Report
A powerful example of the transformative role academic research can have in the wider world, the story of a student-designed water well drill shows how BYU engineers helped bring clean water to rural Tanzania. Footage from the student tea’s inaugural trip to Africa seven years ago was interspersed with more recent, outcome-based material.