Egg Drop

Here is our egg design. The upside down U's are bent straws and the big scribble is masking tape. This was used to attempt to keep the egg safe and reduce the impact of the ground.

The task is to get grouped with four people randomly, we had to make a way to prevent the egg breaking from a certain height. Although we werent told that it would be off a three story building. Our only materials was 6 straws and a whole masking tape roll.

Anyway on the left is a design and a rough look alike of our model, although we stuck the last of the masking tape around the shell for extra protection which made it bounce.



The process was pretty simple, we cut straws, bent them and masking taped them on, then we covered the egg in a masking tape shell. To modify it we would have used the rest of the roll to lower the egg until it reaches the bottom, then let go. Unforunatly, everyones broke on the 3rd drop so it was a draw.

The group I was working in was very good at communicating and shared out all the ideas, this shown me that this group would work well together, when making the egg drop shell we all worked together too.

At the end though we should have thought more outside the box. We could have wrapped the egg in a bit of masking tape but not tear it off, instead we could have curled the rest attached so it doesn't stick to the bars, we could then unroll it and lower it until it touches the ground. This would have been the best idea to safely lower the egg, even from the 3rd floor.