Dire Dawa
Bordering countries around Ethiopia
Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan
If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5-liter and 3-liter bucket, how would you measure exactly 4 liters? The buckets do not have any intermediate markings.
Fill the 5-liter bowl. Then fill the 3-liter bowl from the 5-liter bowl. You will now have 2 liters left in the 5 liter bowl.
Empty the 3-liter bowl, and then transfer the 2 liters from the 5-liter bowl into it.
Now fill the 5-liter bowl again, then pour water carefully from the 5-liter bowl into the 3-liter bowl until it is full - exactly one more liter.
The 5-liter bowl now has exactly 4 liters.
According to WHO, what is the minimum amount of water a person needs to meet basic drinking, sanitation, and hygiene needs in a day?
13 gallons (50 liters). How much does an average person in Ethiopia use?
This project is expected to cost:
How much is $20,000
What is the climate like in Dire Dawa?
Tropical savannah, which is above a hot semi-arid climate
Number of national languages
5 (Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali and Tigrinya)
The probability of finding the parking slot occupied is 1/3. You find it empty for 9 consecutive days. Find the probability that it will be empty on the 10th day.
2/3
According to the World Toilet Organization, how many times per day does a person use a toilet?
6-8 times
The three pillars of our project are:
What is Sanitation (latrines)?
What is water access?
What is a Digital Library?
Dire Dawa is an important city to the Islamic religion because
Harar, the fourth ancient city of Islam, is located approximately an hour outside the city. It is our best image of how Islam spread into Africa in the 8th century
3. You're in a boat, and you throw out a heavy suitcase. Does the water level increase?
The water level will decrease, the suitcase is now displacing it volume rather than its weight
Our mentor and how we know him
Jalal Abdel-Latif, he reached out to Alex after graduating UCLA and moving back to Dire Dawa part time
2500
Frequency with which every pipe in Dire Dawa is ripped up due to hard water deposits
How often is every 6 months to 2 years?
The very popular product you likely consumed today that originates in Ethiopia
COFFEE
4. In front of you are three light switches. Only one does anything, and it turns on the light downstairs. From where you are standing, you can't see the downstairs light, and it makes no sound. You must determine which switch operates the light, BUT you can only check it once. How do you figure out which switch is for the light?
Describe the chosen technical design
Ahan decides whether it counts :)
The job that a family in Dire Dawa has been maintaining for multiple generations
What is feeding the hyenas the city's scraps so that they don't attack people?
What are the primary ethnicities and religions in Ethiopia?
Oromos (34%) and Amharas (27%)
Two thirds Christian, One third Muslim (this is different than in Dire Dawa)
5. A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence. The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient. The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the earth was the best. The mathematician laughed at the others and, with his design, beat them in the challenge. What did he do?
he built a small fence around himself, and said he was on the outside.
The cost of a slice of frat pizza is:
what is $2 and sometimes $3 and sometimes $1????