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The event is part of the White House\u2019s \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/make.xsead.cmu.edu\/weekofmaking\u0022\u003EWeek of Making\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d running though Thursday,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing an entrepreneur is tiring and it\u2019s been a lot of work, but everything at Georgia Tech is hard,\u201d she said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make it impossible. Here I\u2019ve learned how to make everything possible.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is just the latest honor for Burton, who graduated in December with a degree in industrial design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe was part of the team that won the 2014 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inventureprize.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, an annual Georgia Tech contest that rewards students with cash prizes and free patents for big ideas that solve the world\u2019s problems. The all-female team invented SafiChoo, an inexpensive mobile toilet, and conducted field tests on the device last summer in a refugee village in Kenya.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInVenture was the turning point for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI realized then that my goal as a humanitarian-focused entrepreneur is possible and that the time to do it is now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the original team members moved on to other endeavors, Burton continued working on the device this fall and in November launched a social organization called Wish for WASH, which stands for water, sanitation and hygiene. The group seeks to bring innovation to the world of sanitation with SafiChoo serving as the company\u2019s first product.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout a dozen undergraduate students help Wish for WASH in different capacities, providing interdisciplinary expertise with backgrounds in business, policy, biomedical engineering and civil engineering. This past fall, the company sponsored a Capstone team of biomedical and mechanical engineers who made the SafiChoo bidet more efficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs for Burton, she took a course on social entrepreneurship at the Scheller College of Business in the fall and this past spring pursued a post-baccalaureate independent study in social entrepreneurship through the college.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe moves to Zambia July 1 to begin a one-year fellowship with Global Health Corps. 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