Timeline
Universal access to improved sanitation infrastructure is our #WishforWASH.
March, 2014
March, 2014The SafiChoo toilet concept, created by a senior design team, wins First Place and People’s Choice at the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Competition — the largest undergraduate invention competition in the United States.
May, 2014
May, 2014The original senior design team pilots the first iteration of the SafiChoo toilet in the Kakuma refugee camp with the Norwegian refugee council, under the auspices of Sanivation.
September, 2014
September, 2014Creative Loafing, an Atlanta publication, votes Wish for WASH the “Startup Most Likely to Change the World”.
January, 2015
January, 2015Wish for WASH wins the Georgia Tech CEE ForeCast Video Competition, a contest that encourages students to solve global challenges through innovative engineering.
March, 2015
March, 2015Wish for WASH and some of the initial senior design team are sponsored to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference in Miami, Florida.
April, 2015
April, 2015Wish for WASH Founder and President, Jasmine Burton, talks about empathic design at TEDxAtlanta.
June, 2015
June, 2015Wish for WASH holds a fundraiser in conjunction with World Water Relief, which seeks to provide people everywhere with safe water.
December, 2015
December, 2015Wish for WASH successfully completes its first crowdfunding campaign to support its 2016 beta product pilot and toilet tests.
June, 2016
June, 2016Wish for WASH embarks on the 2016 beta pilot in Zambia.
July, 2017
July, 2017Wish for WASH completes the container-based toilet project with Global Growers.
October, 2017
October, 2017Wish for WASH publishes the Zambian Toilet Pilot Report.
May, 2018
May, 2018The Wish for WASH team leads a Design Thinking class for an Off Grid Toilet Design with Atlanta high schoolers.
October, 2018
October, 2018Wish for WASH publishes the Toilet Design Thinking Class Learning Report.
March, 2019
March, 2019Wish for WASH conducted it's first WASH-related Design Jam in partnership with OpenIDEO, the Design Bloc and Fusion 360.
December, 2019
December, 2019Wish for WASH celebrated its 5th Birthday with our 5 Year Impact Report
June, 2020
June, 2020Wish for WASH celebrated its first academic publication acceptance!
November, 2020
November, 2020Wish for WASH celebrated its 5th Virtual WASH Design Jam!
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