Student team dedicated to social good through tech

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A groundwater festival for children, an environmental group and an AIDS-ravaged country in Africa are all benefiting from a University of Waterloo student team with a mission to do good.

A chapter of Blueprint, which began at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, was co-founded by Waterloo Engineering student Luisa San Martin a year ago to create technology such as websites and mobile applications for non-profit organizations.

“The members really like the idea of building tech for social good,” she said. “Like me, they like that they’re building something that is going to be used to help other people’s lives in an impactful way.”

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