Safichoo
1st Place
People's Choice
Jasmine Burton
Industrial Design
Dunwoody, GA
Erin Cobb
Industrial Design
Atlanta, GA
Brandie Banner
Civil Engineering
Alpharetta, GA
The Safi Choo is an inexpensive, mobile toilet that lowers fecal-oral contamination and reduces stress on the body while maintaining the cultural practices of squatting and anal cleansing, in order to bring relief to refugees in the developing world.

"The CDC's water and sanitation researchers are interested in implementing our design in refugee camps in Africa contingent upon us receiving funding for materials for protoypes and further research. Therefore, winning InVenture would not only mean bringing our product to the global market, but it would also ignite potential careers for our team since we are all passionate about ultimately becoming humanitarian designers and engineers."