History
CUSD Today
Technical Questions
Around the World
Miscellaneous
100
CUSD was founded in this year
2009
100
How many teams does CUSD currently have (total) and what are they?
9 Vertical Teams: OSPRI, SWEEP, Roots, ARC, Sustainable Mobility, SEN, Currents, Tiny Home, and Solarize
3 Horizontal Teams: Tech Ops, MarComm, and Operations
100
What does ARC stand for?
Alternative Recycling Cornell
100
The country highlighted in the image below is ____
Nicaragua
100
What department does CUSD fall under and what is the first and last name of our faculty advisor?
Systems Engineering, Dave Schneider
200
CUSD originally stood for this
Cornell University Solar Decathlon
200
This is CUSD's largest stakeholder
The Smithsonian
200
Name three components of a traditional design thinking process
Any three of these: synthesis, framing, ideation, envisioning, visualization, prototyping, evaluation/feedback, constraints, data gathering
200
The country highlighted in this image is ____
Bangladesh
200
True or False: Since CUSD is a project team, some of our funding comes from Shell
False, as of right now CUSD is not an official engineering project team and we don't receive money from Shell
300
In it's first competition, CUSD placed ______
The team was disqualified
300
This was the non-profit we partnered with for SEG
Voices of African Mothers (VAM)
300
Daily Double!
With your team, decide how much you want to wager on this question
How many new projects did CUSD take on this semester and what are they?
300
This country is highlighted below
Mali
300
The number of people currently enrolled in CUSD
~160 people across all seven colleges
400
This was the first deliverable CUSD ever created
Model home
400
What are the names of 4 people on CUSD eBoard?
(Give Answer)
400
What is commonly accepted as the ideal C:N ratio in a composter?
25-30 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen
400
The country highlighted below is _____
Ghana
400
What type of energy is at the core of Cornell's Climate Action Plan (to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035)?
Earth source heating
500
How much did CUSD fundraise to finance the construction of Schoolhouse South Africa (SSA)?
$300,000
500
How many people applied to CUSD at the beginning of this semester?
150 people across 7 colleges
500
What are the capitals of Nepal and Ghana?
Nepal: Kathmandu
Ghana: Accra
500
This country is highlighted in the image below
Bhutan
500
Which of these statements ARE a part of CUSD's Purpose & Mission:
A. "Empower people to make a sustainable impact in their own community"
B. "Advocate for change and connect communities with the knowledge, experience and resources needed to help people build a better life"
C. "Challenge students to create dynamic and innovative solutions for economic, social, and ecological difficulties faced by the global community"
D. "Develop and implement real-world solutions that are sustainable, cost-effective, efficient, and practical"
CUSD's Purpose: "Empower people to make a sustainable impact in their own community" (A)
CUSD's Mission: "Challenge students to create dynamic and innovative solutions for economic, social, and ecological difficulties faced by the global community" (C)
B - UNDP
D - Tetra Tech