Wish For Wash
The Georgia Tech Engineers Without Borders Wish for WASH team has the ultimate goal of bringing innovative research, design and education solutions to global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) problems that plague society both domestically and abroad. Our work aligns with the United Nations' 6th Sustainable Development Goal that seeks to ensure access to water and sanitation for all by 2030.
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Our EWB-GT team's current projects are as follows:
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1. Bioreactor Engineering Research & Development Project which seeks to help drive innovation in the local Circular Sanitation Economy. They will be building a fully functional bioreactor.
2. Design Thinking Team Over the past 4 years Wish for WASH has been running design thinking workshops and courses with partners such as OpenIDEO, The Paideia School, The Weber School, Girl Scouts of Atlanta, and the Museum of Design Atlanta as a part of our educational and advocacy workstream. Through our workshops and curricula we seek to empower the next generation of STEM learners, design thinkers, and human-centered problem-solvers to use empathic, interdisciplinary and iterative tools to build sustainable and inclusive innovation in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, helping the world reach the 6th Sustainable Development Goal by 2030.
3. Menstrual Health and Bioplastics Research Team looks to investigate further the sustainability of menstrual products in the US and the EU and publish a paper based on these findings. We are also looking into partnering with a lab for future prototyping and testing for sustainable menstrual health products.
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4. Septic Innovation Research Team seeks to research and develop a new septic systems to replace those failing in coastal regions due to climate change and increased flooding.
We are looking for Georgia Tech students from various majors including industrial designers, business and marketing majors, and environmental and biomedical engineers who are interested in working on the projects mentioned above! Learn more about the Wish for WASH organization here remember #everybodypoops.
