Displaying their flair for being innovative

The Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas may be more renowned, but the effort put forth by the Hewlett High School students in teacher Ron Remick’s Sports and Entertainment Marketing class for their inaugural Sports Product Fair was just as creative.

Students set up 22 exhibit booths in the main hallway of the school on Jan. 7, and presented their products to paasersby who then answered a brief survey about those items.

“They learn about technology and tap their creative aspects of marketing and business, and learn what it takes to be successful in those areas,” said Remick, who has been teaching the class nine out of the 12 years it has existed.

This project-based course has the students creating a product, a full advertising campaign using radio ad software to produce a 30-second commercial, and a PowerPoint presentation about the product. Other projects include creating a four-person musical band and a sports team.

Juniors Philip Haas and Stephane Pierre shared a table for their projects. Haas created Talk Time a sports logo watch that allowed the user to speak with their coach during a game and would sell for $400.

Pierre spurred by a friend’s idea came up with the Eyetonic Contact Lens that features one’s favorite sports team’s logo and would sell for $30 to $40 for nonprescription lenses and $150 for prescription lenses. With special eye drops the lenses would enhance a user’s vision by 20 percent. Both students said that they have learned much about business, marketing and sports.

Zachary P. Stempler quickly began a spiel about his Super Surfboard that uses memory foam molds to the user’s feet and boasts shark and wave detection, and an onboard On-Star type system ($150 more) that allows you to call for help.

“I priced it at $700 because it is a new product,” he said. “A cheap surfboard is $600 and a good one is $1,200,” the sophomore said. “When it starts selling we could bump up the price.”

Intended to improve your skills, The Footpro priced at $50 is a football featuring technology that detects wind direction, speed and height of the ball, said sophomore Josh Keslowitz.

Watching a ball game could be a whole new experience, with the Sweet Seat a product hawked by sophomore Jake Brovda. The comfortable chair features your favorite team’s or stadium home team’s logo. It would allow the user to order from the concession stand, pay for it with a swipe card and get scores and stats from real and fantasy sports leagues.

“The seat will also have a temperature control to keep a drink cold or hot and keep your seat warm or cool,” Brovda said. It priced at $125 for consumers and $15,000 for every 1,000 for commercial use.

For $39.95 you could buy sophomore Jason Jablon’s Glovolution that will keep the user’s hands warm or cool and lock in a set temperature. Senior Danielle Kendall, a soccer player, created the Magshoena, a soccer cleat that massages and cools the feet and tracks miles run and calories burned at $165 a pair. “I figured you have pedometers, but this is built into the show,” Kendall said.

Coming alive was sophomore Zachary Richman’s BBR200, the basketball robot selling for $999.99 that serves as another player to help those gym rats improve their hoops skills. “It is marketed to middle and [upper] class people, high school players and teams,” said Richman, as he displayed what he learned.