Volunteer Travel – Solar

The Appropriate Technology Collaborative offers several opportunities to volunteer on technology related projects in Guatemala (and soon in Nicaragua). We offer volunteer travelers nothing short of the experience of a lifetime. Our projects focus on installing solar power, clean stoves and safe drinking water in homes, schools and community buildings. We also provide an [...]
Solar Vaccine Refrigeration

Problem - Many of the vaccines used to control diseases require cold temperatures for preservation. Without a reliable power infrastructure, developing countries often lack the resources for keeping these vaccines cool in the long-term, hampering the ability to adequately protect citizens. The Appropriate Technology Collaborative Student Design Team has been charged with the task of [...]
Solar Lighting to Replace Kerosene Lamps

Solar Lighting- In 2008 an international research and development team lead by the Appropriate Technology Collaborative was awarded a grant by the Lindbergh Foundation in order to work with our partners in Guatemala and Nicaragua to build and evaluate various designs for LED lights that are superior in performance to the kerosene lamps widely in [...]
Guatemala Water Project

Girls Carry Water – Guatemala ATC and Engineers Without Borders, Rutgers University, Work With the Local Comite de Agua to Redesign Water Supply Background: Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan: Approximately 6,000 residents of Mayan descent live in this isolated town, located in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. The town was originally located 20km from where it [...]
Wind Weavers of Guatemala

Learning to Weave in Guatemala Thousands of women in Guatemala make their living by weaving textiles and selling them to “middle men” who then sell textiles in regional markets. Middle men can make a handsome profit but the women often make less than $2.00 per day. This level of poverty leads to malnourished children and [...]

Mission

Mission- The Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) creates new sustainable technologies that promote economic growth and improve the quality of life for low income people worldwide. We design, develop, demonstrate and distribute affordable technological solutions that empower people and promote dignity. ATC works in collaboration with local talent and other nonprofits (NGOs) to create market-based solutions [...]

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Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities We offer a variety of volunteer opportunities every year. Solar Installation Workshop Want to learn about solar power? Would you like to help install solar on a building that lacks electricity in Guatemala or Nicaragua? Then this is the trip for you! ATC Volunteer Solar Installation – Guatemala or Nicaragua [...]

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Donate to ATC

Make A Donation! The Appropriate Technology Collaborative needs private donations to keep up our work designing new technologies and to keep our programs with student design teams strong. Foundation support often has strings attached leaving little to finance our exceptional office staff. Your generous support keeps new technologies rolling forward. Background: The Appropriate Technology Collaborative [...]

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Teams & Projects

World Challenge Design Teams

The Appropriate Technology Collaborative was founded in 2008 to work side-by-side with communities in developing countries to design, develop, demonstrate and distribute affordable and sustainable technological solutions that empower people and promote dignity.

ATC works in partnership with people in less economically developed countries to create world-class, low-cost technologies that solve problems and provide opportunity. We have ongoing relationships with people, villages and NGOs in Guatemala and villages + slum cities in Nicaragua. In 2011 we are started our first project in India. Since our inception our clients report serving over 1,000,000 people and our breakthrough designs (Design Link) have been downloaded by over 7,000 nonprofits, governments and people in 40 different countries.

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Solar for NGOs

Learn about solar power, renewable energy and different methods for distributing solar and renewables in less economically developed countries at the ATC Circuits and Solar Workshop August 10 – 18, 2013 in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Nonprofits and International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are invited to learn “Circuits and Solar” the ATC program for teaching solar power. [...]

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Volunteer Travel

The Appropriate Technology Collaborative offers several opportunities to volunteer on technology related projects in Guatemala (and soon in Nicaragua). We offer volunteer travelers nothing short of the experience of a lifetime. Our projects focus on installing solar power, clean stoves and safe drinking water in homes, schools and community buildings. We also provide an opportunity [...]

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Student Teams

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