Design Squad
Kid Engineer: School Solutions
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Two teams of kid engineers design new ways to store books and wear headphones!
Two teams of kid engineers design new ways to store their books at school and sew their headphones into hoodies!
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Design Squad
Kid Engineer: School Solutions
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Two teams of kid engineers design new ways to store their books at school and sew their headphones into hoodies!
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GIRL: School life can be also chaotic and annoying.
Anything that'll make life more comfortable or easier will help you get through the week.
Everybody likes to listen to music while they're running or while they're on the bus, but when your earbuds get caught or tangled up, it gets really frustrating and annoying.
- We're really frustrated by the desks in our school.
They're basically small tables that are so uncomfortable, and there's no place to put any of your books.
- So we decided to invent a solution.
- We wanted to figure out a way to sew a set of earbuds into the fabric of a hoodie to hide them and keep them from getting tangled up.
- We started brainstorming ideas, and they were completely crazy, but then we thought of a mini hammock that hangs under your desk, and we decided to go with that idea, and I think it worked out pretty well.
- Our first version, it had the headphones kind of go through one of the string holes, but the cord that connects the headphones to the actual phone was just dangling there and it was still getting caught, especially a zipper or something.
So we decided we should probably change that.
Okay, so this is our first prototype of the hamp, and we're going to test out these clips that you hook onto the door in your bathroom to hang up your bathrobe or towels or something, and we're hoping that it's going to work.
All right, let's try it out.
Okay.
These slide a bit, but shouldn't interfere too much.
Looks pretty good!
Oh!
All right, so that's a no for these clips.
I really thought this would work.
Well, I guess it didn't because this is supposed to go around a door, not a desk, so the width is too big.
- For the second version, we sewed on a piece of fabric so then that way, the cord wouldn't be rubbing around anything and it wouldn't be hanging loose or getting caught on anything.
- We got the idea to put some fabric around the actual earbud because then that way, it looks better, it looks more natural, and it also hides the earbuds.
So now I just put on my headie, plug my phone in, and since the earbuds are tucked away with the fabric, it makes it more sneaky and easier to listen to music.
After the failure, I'd seen these other clips but didn't know what they were called, so I went to the store and I'm just like, "All right, I need these clips, and you press down on this end, "this end opens and this end closes, and it goes like this."
And eventually, the store manager figured it out and she brought me these.
They work.
This is the hamp!
So there's three things in one.
Right now, it's in the bag to carry your books.
Take out all of your books in here.
It snaps open.
And you're putting it under your desk.
Clamp it on.
And now you have a perfect space for your feet or any of your books and binders.
More books.
These clips are way, way better than the old clips.
They actually clamp on to the desk; they don't slide.
And as an added bonus, it's a foot hammock!
I'm really happy how the hamp turned out.
I use it all the time at home.
It helps me a lot with my homework, and even a bunch of my friends have been asking me to make one for them.
Yeah, even teachers at the school want a hamp, so it's pretty amazing.
Next year, we might start marketing it.
We've even had friends request us to make headies for them, so we're really happy with how it turned out.
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