Charles Pigeon ’26 with a prototype of his puck-collecting innovation. Photo provided.
Today, we are going to take a look at senior Charles Pigeon’s STEM project ’26. He built a hockey tool meant to save time for coaches that helps with picking up pucks and putting them all into the spot that the coach wants. “After drills end, all the guys will go to the benches and grab water or just hang out while the coaches have to go grab the pucks from all of the rink,” said Charles. “I built this kind of shovel that makes it a lot easier to grab all of the pucks and move them to where they need to go.” The project was built at the Northwood Hub, using resources from the robotics team. Charles is proud to say that he built it all himself. The “shovel” opens and closes so that you can slide all of the pucks into the area, and then close the arms around the pucks so they don’t slide away. It has to be used manually, and I have to admit I was very surprised by how useful it would be.
The blue handles are used to open and close the arms on the “shovel”. In his demonstration during one of the practices, the design was very effective, especially with skates, which allowed him to move around the ice quickly and get the pucks. This project was very creative and is definitely useful. Great work by Charles!
