Randal Pinkett is most famous for winning the TV reality show competition, The Apprentice, but his passion is helping those less fortunate. He has multiple engineering degrees from Rutgers University, Oxford University, and MIT.

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Laurie Carrillo is an aerospace engineer at the NASA-Johnson Space Center who’s working on the Orion CEV spacecraft, slated for a moon launch after the current space shuttle retires in 2010. She’s experimenting with different materials to find the best combinations for keeping the temperature ideal inside the spacecraft.

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A Web site that allows people to make small, $25 loans has become a pretty big deal. Matt Flannery used his programming skills to develop Kiva.org, which allows people to lend money to entrepreneurs in developing countries after browsing their profiles online. Kate Ewhrugakpo in Nigeria borrowed $350 to buy sewing machines and fabric for designing clothes and paid back the loan in eight months.

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A slum in India has gotten cleaner water, thanks to filters developed by engineers in an organization that Regina Clewlow created. Clewlow started Engineers for a Sustainable World to encourage fellow engineers to brainstorm ways to improve the lives of people in poor countries.

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Playing with toys all day — that’s how Neal Saiki describes his job.Saiki created an electric dirt bike. It costs just 1 cent per mile to operate — way cheaper than gas. Also, the batteries it uses are completely recyclable. Saiki says designing environmentally friendly products was important to him because he loves camping, hiking, and rock climbing and wants to preserve the great outdoors from pollution.

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