March 2023 Did you know that the world is off track to reach Sustainable Development Goal 6 by 2030? What are we going to do about it? Since 2018, the Wish for WASH Thinks Inc team has been running Design Thinking workshops and courses with 10+ partners such as OpenIDEO…

My name is Mallika Digavalli and I am a first year student at Georgia Tech. I first joined Wish For Wash because I wanted to explore sustainable menstrual products, as those are both subjects I find to be rising topics of importance. From the very first meeting with the Menstrual…

Hello! My name is Arina Kucinskaja, and I am a first-year biomedical engineering major. I joined the Wish for Wash Menstrual Health and Bioplastics team this semester, Fall 2022. When I first applied to join Engineering Without Borders, I was intrigued by the idea that this club connects the Engineering…

I have been on the Design Thinking team with Wish for WASH for the past 2.5 years, which has continuously been a fun and rewarding way to grow personally and professionally. This fall has been my first semester leading the DT team, and it has been a great experience so…

It’s been close to 3 years now of Wish for WASH having a partnership with Weber high school in Atlanta. In the past we have just done several one off Design Jam’s per semester but this year we decided it was time to start thinking bigger and more strategically about…

After participating in Wish for Wash both semesters of 2021, I was given the opportunity to serve as Co-Director of Student Engagement for the spring 2022 semester. As my ties to the club grew, I knew that this would be a great next step in pursuing a leadership role within…

At the beginning of my freshman year, I began exploring all of the clubs that Georgia Tech had to offer. I was interested in finding real world applications for the skills I would be learning in class. During my search, I stumbled upon Wish for Wash (W4W). W4W’s mission to…

I explored this question as I collaborated with the Design Thinking team at Wish for WASH, designing the tools and graphics for Design Jams. Whether it was a visualizing the design process or illustrating a persona journey, the skills I developed helped me build my storytelling tool kit which I leveraged in my senior design thesis.

Daunting. That would be the word that would describe my approach to completing my Capstone and Practicum. I wanted something that would combine my previous experience and something enjoyable. …