Sunday, October 11, 2009

Egg drop contest experiment?

I just got assigned an egg drop contest/project. I have to make a container to protect a raw egg in a free fall from a height of 5 meters. The egg has to survive (no cracks or leakage). The container can't be more than 600 grams (3 lbs), no parachutes, no packing materials (bubble wrap, packing peanuts, styrofoam, etc.) and it has to be hand made. Any ideas? A sketch/material list of this is due in 6 days (he just gave this to us today!) Thanks for the help!


Also, I can't use balloons. I can use paper, cardboard, tissue, tape, glue, rubber bands, and 'you name it'. That's all he listed. And we can't use a shoe box. We have to make the pannels and tape/glue them together (I think that's what he means by handmade).

Egg drop contest experiment?
Hehehehe... what a brain dead exercise. You can't use a shoe box but you could make a shoe box with the materials listed.





Yeah. Make a cube the size of a shoe box out of thin paper, fill it with tissue paper, put the egg in the middle. Write "You Name It" on top. I would probably add large but soft tissue paper balls on the outside. Make it all look fluffy and light and adjust the material density by doing a few experiments.
Reply:boil the egg and dont tell anyone.



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