Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Egg Drop Challenge

  • Team up with a partner
  • In this project I worked alone only because my partner was absent.
Define the challenge

  • The challenge: construct a barrier to protect the egg from breaking when dropped off the 2nd floor balcony of the 700 building.There is no criteria or constraints.
Brainstrom Solutions
  • 1st : Get sandwich plastic bags, bubblewrap, alot of tissue paper and tape.  
  • 2nd : Wrap the egg in the tissue paper and tape it. Then after place the egg in the plastic bag.
  • 3rd : Put the bubble wrap all around the plastic bag and tape it.
Achievements:
  • Brainstorming-Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels.
  • Create a sketch of another possible solution. Include labels.
  • Create a sketch of a third possible solution. Include labels.
Material Prep:
  • Bubble wrap
  • Tape
  • Tissue paper
  • Sandwich plastic bags
Drop Accuracy:
  • The egg hit the floor just fine. The egg however, bounced a little bit but landed okay.
Egg Resilience:
  • When the egg drop was over and we had to see if it had any cracks in it my egg was successful and did not break.