48-2 Design Competition - Children Playset

48-2 Design competition is a annual Industrial Design competition held at Purdue University. 5 teams composed of Seniors, Juniors, and Sophmores competes in this event. The topic this year is design for Haiti. Haiti being the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere require many outside help, this case a group of Haiti missionaries approached Purdue University for help.
Each team were given 48 hours to come up with solutions and build a working prototype, and for my team we slept about 8 hours this weekend....
The design challenge:
PlaygroundProblem: children in Haiti lack fine motor skills and problem solving skills. Currently in Lamar there is no playground. Children love to play soccer and have lots of outdoor space to explore. The children have plenty of opportunity for gross motor skill development, but do not have as many options for developing fine motor skills. The children at the school are from 4 year old to 15 year old.Create a locally producible playground for the school in Lamar Haiti. The playground should encourage problem solving abilities and fine motor skills. Also of course, it should be fun.
My team roster:
Senior(design leader): Nora Flood, Leah Kenttamaa-Squires, and myself
Junior: Steve Duffin, Alex Padgett, Alex Hill
Sophmore: Elizabeth Reuter


The team!

Concret fun wall, and musical wall made out of trash and stick.

Math wall made out of bottle cap and scrap wood

We couldn't find any bamboo in 48 hours so PVC pipes were used instead. This is a tilting

machine. The child would play in teams to try to tilt the beads through one of the three

obstacle courses.

Very simple tire climbing play things. Idea being the child can climb and kick soccer

balls through the tire.

Overall we had great success in this event, every team member performed exceptionally. The winner of this competition will be announced shortly so check back soon!