Projects I
Donations
Food and Drink
Potluck
Projects II
Culture
Partners
Projects III
400
This is the village that gave every volunteer a cowboy hat at the end of the project.
Who is La Soledad?
400
This is the village where Ohio was the first state to wire every home:
A. What is Las Tortugas?
B. What is La Soledad?
C. What is Barejones?
B. What is La Soledad?
400
If you drink this in Guatemala without precautionary measures, you will get sick!
What is the water?
400
This is the village in which Jason McDermott led the inside wiring project.
What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
400
This is the main piece of equipment that linemen use every day that have never been available on an international project.
What is a bucket truck?
400
This is what the linemen in Guatemala use to climb poles in lieu of a belt and climbers.
What is rope?
400
This is the state that went with Ohio on the planning trip in 2017:
A. What is Georgia?
B. What is Virginia?
C. What is Arkansas?
C. What is Arkansas?
400
This is what "Las Luces!" means in Spanish.
What is "The Lights!"
800
This is the project where the brakes went out on the planning trip and four guys almost went over the side of the mountain:
A. What is La Soledad?
B. What is Las Tortugas?
C. What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
A. What is La Soledad?
800
This is the tool manufacturer who has donated a significant amount of tools on three of the four projects.
Who is Milwaukee Tools?
800
When it comes to eating fruit in Guatemala, the saying is, "If you can't ___ ___ , then you can't eat it!"
What is "peel it?
800
This is the nominal voltage that villagers in the first three projects received at the meter.
What is 120V?
800
This is the one thing that the team had to do without when taking showers at the hotel during the Las Tortugas project.
What is hot water?
800
There has been at least one of these in every village that has been electrified. "Tienda" is the Spanish word.
What is Store? Or Shop?
800
This is the state that Ohio partnered with for Project Ohio 2025 in Barejones, Jalapa:
A. What is Indiana?
B. What is Michigan?
C. What is Oklahoma?
C. What is Oklahoma?
800
This is the name of the OEC employee shown in this photo in Tierra Blanca Sebol?
Who is Taylor Harris?
1200
This is the only project where the volunteers slept on cots in the homes of the villagers:
A. What is Barejones?
B. What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
C. What is La Soledad?
C. What is La Soledad?
1200
This is the village where Ohio was the first state to provide water filters for every home.
What is Las Tortugas/San Jorge?
1200
This particular side dish has been included in almost every meal on every trip.
What are beans?
1200
This is the village where Pat O'Loughlin gave his speech to the village in Spanish.
What is La Soledad?
1200
This is the project where the villagers boiled water during the day so the linemen could take warm showers at night by pouring buckets of water on themselves.
A. What is La Soledad?
B. What is Las Tortugas?
C. What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
A. What is La Soledad?
1200
This was the Mayan dialect that the villagers in Las Tortugas spoke:
A. What is Q' eqchi'
B. What is Kʼicheʼ
C. What is Q’anjob’al
A. What is Q' eqchi'
1200
This is the name of the municipal that Ohio has done two projects for: Las Tortugas and Tierra Blanca Sebol.
A. Who is EEMJ?
B. Who is EMRE?
C. Who is EEMZ?
B. Who is EMRE? Empresa Municipal Rural de Electricidad
1200
This is the project where the villagers chanted "Las Luces! Las Luces! Las Luces!" when the planning trip team arrived on sight.
What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
1600
This is one of the two projects where the Ohio volunteers had to leave without turning the lights on.
What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
What is Barejones?
1600
This is how much money was available for personal donations in Barejones, Jalapa:
A. What is $10K?
B. What is $18K?
C. What is $25K?
D. What is $29K?
D. What is $29K?
1600
This particular bread has been included in almost every meal on every trip. Be very specific!
What is corn tortillas?
1600
This is the name of the (retired) Ohio CEO that attended two planning trips and one lighting ceremony (inauguration).
Who is George Carter?
1600
This was the mode of transportation for the team to get back home after getting stuck in Tierra Blanca Sebol.
What is a private jet?
1600
This is the number of people who still do not have electricity in the world:
A. What is 267 million?
B. What is 4.8 billion?
C. What is 1.3 billion?
D. What is 2.1 billion?
C. What is 1.3 billion? 16%
1600
This is the number of interpreters that NRECA has provided on every project.
What is four?
1600
This is the village that had a school with a total of four students.
What is Barejones? Actually Delicias
2000
This was the project where the team got stuck in Guatemala when the country shut down due to COVID.
What is Tierra Blanca Sebol?
2000
This is the village for which Ohio provided a brand new septic system for the school.
What is Barejones?
2000
In Tierra Blanca Sebol, the elevation was perfect for this product that we love to drink in America.
What are coffee beans?
2000
These are three of the five flags that have been flown on various projects by the team.
What is USA?
What is Guatemala?
What is OEC?
What is Project Ohio?
What is Ohio?
2000
This is the name of the Ohio co-op that first approached senior staff about facilitating an international project in Ohio.
A. Who is Paulding-Putnam EC?
B. Who is South Central Power?
C. Who is Holmes-Wayne EC?
C. Who is Holmes-Wayne EC?
2000
This is the reason why the villagers in Las Tortugas did not initially trust the Project Ohio team.
What is that other groups had promised electricity and took their money and ran?
2000
This is the name of the municipal that NRECA cut ties with for not paying their wholesale bill.
A. Who is EEMJ?
B. Who is EMRE?
C. Who is EEMZ?
C. Who is EEMZ? (Zacapa)
2000
This is the village where this group of volunteers worked.
What is Barejones?
2400
This is the number of projects performed east of Guatemala City.
What is one?
2400
This is how many pairs of shoes were purchased for the children in Las Tortugas and San Jorge. You must get within 25.
What is 442 pairs?
2400
12% of travelers to Central America get this sickness while in country due to unsafe food and water.
What is traveler's diarrhea?
2400
Each day of every project has always began with this.
What is prayer?
2400
This is the main thing that still remains left to do in Barejones.
What is energize the lines?
2400
This is what they call the chromed out buses used for transportation in Guatemala.
What is a chicken bus?
2400
This is the name of the NRECA representative that Ohio has worked with on every project.
Who is Ingrid Hunsicker?
2400
This is the name of the OEC employee who was interviewed on national TV at the Las Tortugas inauguration ceremony?
Who is Doug Miller?
