SportsLab is a collection of online and real world experiences for uncovering the STEAM connections between sport shoe design, sport research and design thinking. For example, exploring the Sport Research Lab during a mission focused on outsoles leads a team to an overview of how friction is related to traction and how researchers might study it.
This is extended to the real world through a hands-on activity in which players build an in-class traction tester and then test different outsoles. What teams learn in this mission, as well as the traction tester itself, further the research that supports the team’s Parkour shoe outsole design decisions.