Pidget Fencil

Picton, AustraliaPidget Fencil

$1,015

Raised of $1,000 AUD

Successfully funded on Aug 16, 2019
22 supporters
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About This Project

What is a Pidget Fencil?

Pidget Fencil started as an idea to help reduce anxiety amongst young school children. A big problem in the classroom is that students can be distracted from their work, fidget and get stressed. Over time, this can lead to high levels of stress, students begin to question themselves and can develop symptoms of mental illness. When distracted, kids will often fidget with things like a fidget spinner but they stop you from getting your school work done. We thought, "why not create something to fidget with but allows you to work at the same time and not get it confiscated by the teacher?"

Our original design concept was a pencil that has a bunch of fun materials built onto it to play with. Our idea then developed to being a customisable and collectable product that clips onto pens and pencils that allows you to choose what materials you want to feel.

Who are we?

We are students from Picton High School and have developed the Pidget Fencil with the help of MakersSpace and Co. We were a part of a Youth Incubator run by Young Change Agents and were selected based on a application we submitted in producing a product to battle mental health issues within schools. We believe we have come up with a practical and effective tool to alleviate stress and distractions within the classroom.

Designs

We have developed over 2 versions of the Pidget Fencil so far and made a number of iterations. We believe we have a durable design which students will love.


How can you help?

Being school students we would love support from designers, producers to provide us with feedback and suggestions to what we could do to improve the product. Including ways to decrease the costs so that it is affordable to all students.

We are looking for potential suppliers who would like to help us manufacture and distribute the products.

Most of all, we would love as many people trying our Pidget Fencil so we can gather as much ideas, feedback so that we can make Pidget Fencil available in all schools and to all students.

Please donate to our crowdfunding campaign by selecting a reward from the list. We are grateful for your support.

Use Of Funds

$1,000 Tipping Point Goal

This allows us to develop our designs and make our first batch of Pidget Fencils! We need to source a viable and reliable supplier and be able to source materials and different textures.

Breakdown of costs thus far:

With current suppliers and designers is costs us around $350 to 3D print 20 Pidget Fencils. We want to try and decrease this cost by using the injection mould technique which will take some research and sourcing. Estimated costs for injection mould technique is around $400 for the build of the mould and being the majority of the costs. It is predicted that we will be able to produce approximately 40 Pidget Fencils.

The rest of the funds will go to the research and sourcing of materials and the template in which to attach the materials. We will save some money to be able to ship the Pidget Fencils to you.

$2,000 Stretch Goal

We can then create another batch of Pidget Fencils and help distribute these to other communities. We would also like to develop a branded package in which to deliver the product and spend some money on marketing the product.

We will look to establish which method of production is viable whilst producing more samples for customers ($1000). We will then look to produce branded packaging for the Pidget Fencil. We are looking to spend $500 on the production of the packaging and $500 on delivery, transport and designs.


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$50.00

Receive a personal thank you message and a shout out on our social media channels. More importantly, be a part of the project and receive one Pidget Fencil with two strips of materials - you can see the strips in the description.

This way you can help us test the suitable materials and ultimately the design of our Pidget Fencil.

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