Monday, 14 February 2011

The great egg drop

We have been assigned to create a way to protect the egg from from breaking while thrown from various heights. We been assigned to groups and to create that structure we had to use sealing tape and 6 straws.
To develop our idea we used brainstorming.
At first I had an idea to make a little trampoline but we we found out that egg will have to be droped from as high as 3-4 stories. Then we discussed about idea of just taping whole egg with sealing tape. We decided to go with more creative approach and decided to role some tape on egg then make small balls from tape which would act like a cushion. also with using straws we created pyramid shaped parachute.
 Egg survived after droping from first and second floor but it broke after droping from third floor (last floor).

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