Hello! My name is Kester Wilkening, I am currently an undergraduate junior majoring in Civil Engineering. I first learned about AguaClara in 2008 when I took a "Water Treatment Design" course, and I was really inspired about the capacity-building principles that drove AguaClara. In the past I have worked with "Cornell University Sustainable Design: Sustainability Research Facility" on constructing a sustainable building on Cornell's campus. Right now I am working on the Floc Sed optimization team of AguaClara, and our goal is to see if there are ways in which we can streamline the AguaClara process to reduce construction and operation costs.