Dunstan High School student Tom Smale won a Queenstown Airport competition to design a better luggage trolley and collected the $1000 prize.
Tom’s design included a slot for storing oversized items such as bike boxes, a bonus for those travelling to Central Otago to enjoy the bike trails.
Queenstown Airport launched a competition to design a better luggage trolley for the airport. They required it to be ergonomic, stable, nestable and easy to use, with bonus points offered for safety brakes, a child seat, a locking system to prevent the trolley being taken off airport property and space for advertising.
Chief operating officer Todd Grace said Tom’s design impressed the judges because he tackled the challenge in a completely original way.
Cromwell College student Liam Douglas was the competition’s runner-up.
Liam visited the airport to study the trolleys used by the airport and thought of ways they could be improved, Mr Grace said.
None of the entries was the complete package, but now the company had some great new ideas and concepts for better trolleys, which would be developed further with an engineering company, he said.
