Hi everybody!

My name is William Amos and I am currently a 3rd year Environmental Engineering major with an interest in sustainable design. Some people call me Will, actually most people call me Will. Some just call me “The Dude” but we wont get into that. I really enjoy solving problems. Specifically issues that most have deemed solved and rarely look at again. Take that scooter in the photo above. While my twin brother and I were riding those scooters we were using up gasoline. Those scooters only needed to get up to about 40 mph so why not just use electric scooters on the island? And sure while that may seem unnecessary its at least something to think about. Any step to help aid in saving the environment is a good one in my eyes. Being an eagle scout means I spent a large portion of my childhood in the outdoors and after spending so much time out in nature I know that saving it is not only worthwhile for its aesthetic value, but also it’s natural resource and natural service value. Through intuitive design and the implementation of environmental parallelism I think we as a species can easily overcome the obstacles we face with climate change and sustainability.

How did I get involved with SPAM? Well to start I worked with both Aldrin and Amihan prior on Solar Decathlon for Team Orange. Our team of three was tasked with implementing 3D printing into this “house of the future. Since the house was entirely solar powered, and the 3D printing system was intended to be a closed loop nutrient cycle, the concept was nearly net zero emissions and resource use. By constantly recycling the plastic, and using renewable energy, the printer and the plastics it used could be constantly cycled thus not taxing the earths natural resources. And while at the solar decathlon we talked often about this concept we didn’t have the proper time or resources to actually put the idea into action. Thats where SPAM comes in! We created this team so that we could actually take the ideas we had for the Solar Decathlon house and put them into action. Through our use of the Creativity Technology and Sustainability Lab in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts we can actually research and create an efficient and user friendly workflow for that nearly net zero concept we advertised in the Solar Decathlon.

Cheers! and thanks for reading.