Innovation Project by LJCDS Alumni Gets News Coverage

If only there was some way to grab the attention of players on the field and get them to hydrate. Hey, a drone might work!

“They notice them,” said Torreys head football coach Tyler Hales. “That probably wouldn’t be a bad little signal to drink up some water.”

The Design and Innovation Program at La Jolla Country Day presented a challenge, with the help of the CamelBak water company: find a way to improve “Team Hydration.” The research started immediately.

It’s 100+ degrees and you are at football practice. You are covered head-to-toe in pads and a helmet in the exhausting summer heat. As half of the team sprints over to the 8-headed sprinkler hydration system, the other half of the team is wishing someone, or something could bring them the cool, refreshing liquid.

There has to be a better way. Something other than getting drenched by gallons of water like the Great Wolf Lodge bucket dump – that would be perfect.

La Jolla Country Day School in San Diego, California has a potential solution that you might find silly (its okay, they did too). With the help of CamelBak water company, a drone could be a team’s new waterboy. The days of Adam Sandler’s Bobby Boucher are coming to an end. This drone shows no mercy, just like Captain Insano.
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Vocative.com - Drones Set To Replace Waterboys, Seriously

Ah Drones, our friendly neighborhood, whizzing, flying robot buddies. Think of all the wondrous uses we’ve found for this modern marvel. They’ll race and/orbattle one another for our entertainment; in the near future, they’ll bring us all of the crap we buy online; they’re a nifty tool for snapping creative selfies (just ask Martha Stewart); and they’re great for murdering lots of humans, particularly if you don’t want to risk sending another human being into a foreign land.

But enterprising students from the Design and Innovation Program at La Jolla Country Day School may have come up with the silliest—by their own admission—use for drones yet: replacing the trusty old sideline water bottle.
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