Wetskills-United States 2023

We are very close to our pitch day

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Thaiane Fatima Maciel dos Santos – Our Saturday started quite differently in NYC. We are very close to our pitch day, with deadlines for posters, pitch and…
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Crunch time! Fun times?

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Ayanda Tsitsa – This morning started fairly rough with submissions for the paper and mock presentations due in the morning. Every team was up and ready to…
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Today is Day 6 and its St. Patricks day!

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Danica Carnow (University of the Western Cape, PhD candidate from South Africa) – It’s St. Patrick’s Day and the final day of our stay at the Consulate…
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Our project is like making a smoothie

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Daan Bood (Civil technical Advisor, Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier) Our team started our project by researching ways to address the issue of plastic pollution in the ocean. The…
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Enjoying a well deserved beer after work

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Steven Ree (Wageningen University & Research, Rijkswaterstaat) Today we continued working on our cases at the South African Consulate. So far, we spent a lot of time…
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This is my blog – Snow in NYC

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Ayman Kassem (World Waternet) Today was snowing day in NYC, we move to south Africa embassy, the train was extremely busy we squeezing ourselves to fit in…
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Hot-Start!

Wetskills-USA 2023, by Mila Avellar Montezuma (IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education) The hot-start of the WetSkills-USA (UN) 2023 happened today, symbolically placed in South African Embassy, a ‘cell’ of the…
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Exploring innovative solutions.

Wetskills USA-2023, by Tim Rotteveel (HZ University of Applied Sciences) Today was a really exciting (and wet ☹) day because it was the first day we started working on our…
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