Element C

Reflective questions 

Problem statement: In 2023 a survey was conducted in Wisconsin Hudson High School from current and former Track Athletes. 59.3% of responses said that it's a challenge to move hurdles. There awkward ,and simply too heavy to carry more than one at a time.

Why current solutions don't work: Todays solutions are too unstable or don't carry enough hurdles. The carts don't have nice grooves or channels for the hurdles to snug into and also if you fill the cart completely with hurdles it can be very hard to move with just one person.

How did we come up with the design requirements: The most important requirement for our project is being able to transport hurdles efficiently. This is the whole point of this project trying to do just that. Our second requirement is needing to carry at least 8 hurdles. The reason is because in each set/line of hurdles there is one for each lane. being able to transport one set of hurdles would save much more time instead of going back to that same set and picking the rest up. Our third requirement is it needs to be light enough for at lease one person to push on there own. If different schools don't have a ATV to pull the cart and if we end up putting a electric motor and it dies it still needs to be pushed by at least one person. Our 4th requirement is It needs to be able to be able to be towed by a ATV or have an electric motor and battery for it to be moved on its own power. Our last requirement is the huddles need to fit together nicely to save space on the hurdle cart so we can fit at least 8 of them on.