Egg Drop

Tuesday Jun 7th 2011

Next day my DD has to submit egg in a container for Egg-Drop Event. It is nothing but throwing the eggs of all the kids from a specific height and find out which eggs are survived & which are not. It seems like a lot of fun for the kids. The idea is we have to protect the egg in such a way it will not break if thrown from the height. So I started working on the project with 4 small paper cups, Styrofoam peanuts, Bubble wrap and Plastic Jar.

Step 1: I bubble wrapped the egg and place it in a small paper cup; then I covered with one more paper cup on the open end.

Step 2: One more layer of paper cup on both sides and taped the cups in between

Step 3: In a plastic jar I attached a heavy soda bottle opener (round shaped) using little play dough.

Step 4: I placed the sealed Cups in the plastic jar and cushioned with Styrofoam peanuts(loosely)

Step 5: Closed the lid and again taped it.

Step 6: I wanted to make couple of holes in the jar to release the force when the container hits the hard surface, I assumed egg will not have any impact if it has holes. But I forgot to make holes L

Tomorrow they will do the Egg drop and I am very curious to know the result. Ooooo laaaa laaaaah…. J

 

I cudn't believe. The Egg Survived. She received the Certificate with "Survivor" Sticker.  I am soooooooo happy that the egg survived the Egg Drop...