Another Ergonomically Designed Bag :)

Another important finding!
Ergonomics school bags for children are not so rare after all.

http://www.kid2youth.sg/

This website shows that there are schoolbags that claim that their designs consider orthopedic support system, weight distribution, comfort as well as balance.

One of the most popular ergonomics bags is the ERGOBAG.

The design has won the RED DOT DESIGN AWARD 2011.

I found a video about the bag but it is explained in German unfortunately but the pictures in this video is quite self-explanatory.

Gathering Information, who says it's easy peasy?

So I am working on my research report again. I am writing up about Primary and Secondary Students in Singapore. I thought it was going to be easy to write it up but then it turns out that I need to look for statistics that will tell me the facts about Singaporean students. 

Well I found a trustworthy statistics from Education Statistics Digest 2013 that tells me the total number of primary and secondary students in Singapore but then I need to look for the average height and weight of these students.

Photo courtesy by Singapore Statistics Digest 2013

This is when I hit the wall.

Can't find any information anywhere.

Not in any Singapore Government's websites, not in UNICEF website. Just nowhere to be found.

It's the most important variables that I need to take into consideration when designing the solution to the heavy school bag problem yet I don't think I can find the information anywhere.

Singapore School Curriculum

Education system in Singapore is quite different to my country's system.

6 years of primary school and 4 year of secondary school. It's PACKED.

Maybe that is one of the reasons of why students' bags here are pregnant with books and other things. I just looked up for the official curriculum set out by the Ministry of Education and found out how the system is like here.

For primary students, there are 4 core subjects that they need to study plus other extra subjects like co-curricular activities, character & citizenship education, physical education and project work. 

One subject, take maths for an example, will require a student to carry a textbook, a workbook and sometimes a calculator. If in a day there will be 2 subjects learned plus a PE class then hypothetically the weight that needs to be carried tripled in amount.
I don't really know what a primary student's timetable is like and how local primary school' curriculum varies from one to another but looking at the surface of this, it looks like there are many books and equipments to be carried to school everyday.
I will research into it later.