The State College Rotary Club invited me (Steve) to make a presentation on the topic of the ceramic water filters and collaborations with Discovery Space Children’s Museum in State College. Tuesday September 16. I established a history of the ceramic water filter technology and acknowledged key people who have been influential to the work I have been doing through Reservoir Studio (Dick Wukich, Manny Hernandez, Lisa Ballentine, Oscar Muñoz, Bryan Boulanger, Ron Rivera, and Fernando Mazeriegos). I concluded with an overview of several projects or potential projects which included a mobile educational workshop, an interactive museum exhibit for children, mobile filter production equipment, the traveling water filter receptacle exhibition, and work by Dick Wukich and Potters Water Action Group to support the creation of a water filter production facility in Osun State, Nigeria.

Chalkboard with mobile workshop check-list and pyramid of plaster filter press molds. Reservoir Studio.