Are you tired of having your work appreciated? Does it embarrass you when people celebrate your achievements by cheering, singing, and dancing? Yes? Well, then I don’t recommend working on a water and solar-power project in Africa. Engineering students Rob Best (’10), Isabel Bush, Evann Gonzales, Ozzie Gooen (all ’12) and I spent 6 weeks installing photovoltaic panels, a solar-powered water pump, and classroom lighting at the Clay International Secondary School in Ngomano, Kenya. Along the way, we gained new insights into Newtonian gravity, off-grid electrical systems, the challenges of getting things built without the HMC machinist, and how “technology divorced from humanity is worse than no technology at all.”