The Perfect Shot Semester 2 Week 10
This week our team conducted our broader impacts discussion with our class where we spoke about how our product would impact our local and global communities socially, economically, environmentally, and the safety impact of our product.
Some of the impacts we had are:
Social Impact:
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Our product will allow more kids to play, including the less
sports inclined kids to participate and still have fun with the improved
shooting accuracy coupled with the scaled sizes of hoop, ball, and court.
Impacting both local and global communities by adding this quick attachment
system to their local parks allowing more children to play the sport by having
an adult adjust the hoop for them.
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The product will allow children to have a boost of confidence with
increased accuracy based of data collected from live research, EGR 365 has laid
foundational ground work on how to conduct and work with in person subjects
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Can increase the number of children who stick with Basketball and Volleyball
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Help build relationships and social confidence through team play,
this is an important part of a child’s development cycle from toddler to school
age children (PSYC100 Intro to Psychology). This may increase their
communication skills, physical skills such as improved motor skills, allow them
to have a better social emotional skill to where they have a better
understanding of their limits and what they can withstand mentally and
physically. Additionally, it may improve their cognitive understanding and
allow them to be more aware of their surroundings.
Economic Impact:
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If product went to market it would create jobs for people.
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Our product if properly implemented is cheaper than a hospital
bill for a overuse injury, fracture, or break.
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May increase the number of Basketball and Volleyball players
feeding into those sports economies such as ball, shoe, and other various sport
equipment businesses.
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If children stick with sport may lead to scholarships reducing
education cost for those individuals.
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EGR 263 gave our team the knowledge needed to design our product
prior to building with raw materials allowing us to decrease the amount of
wasted material in our manufacturing process. This led to a decrease in not
only material wasted but funds spent by the school
Safety & Environmental Impact:
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Our product can lead to a overall decrease in sports injuries such
as ankle inversion/eversion that can lead to a lasting impact on the
individual. Additionally, it will have an additional impact of overall improved
technique. The decrease in injury would globally drop injury occurrence where
our product is implemented.
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Less sports injuries may lessen crowding in Urgent Care/ ER
freeing up available resources.
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Improved form, decreased injury, may lead to a more worry-free
environment where kids can enjoy themselves
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PHY 201 coupled with EGR 242 gave the foundational knowledge
needed to test the stress points and forces that would be sustained by our
equipment, allowing us to improve our design and finding the weak points that
could be addressed. We implemented resources learned such as moments, velocity
profiles to find proper shooting distance, and forces the backboard will
sustain through repeated impacts.
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Future products may be able to reuse metal, it can be melted down
and formed into Rim components. Additionally, plastic can be reused to make backboards
if we decided to make our own system. This will have a global impact on
lowering metal scraps and plastics in our global communities.
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