Showing posts with label Egg Drop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egg Drop. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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...