Senior in electrical engineering named Vandegrift Co-op student of the year

Jared Jones has a passion for serving others. He’s bagged diapers for the Women’s Hope Medical Clinic, staffed multiple church fall festivals, stocked shelves at the Food Bank of East Alabama and helped student peer team members with Engineering Without Borders design a suspension bridge system to support an irrigation pipeline to help struggling villagers in Bolivia.

“I enjoy the satisfaction that comes from being willing to give a part of yourself to better someone else in some way,” he said.

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