Egg Project

During our Egg project, our group first had to plan what sort of contraption we can make to keep the egg intact. We assigned ourselves the goal that the egg WILL NOT break. We knew we had to make this project in just a few minutes. We essentially needed to use all our equipment and have a breakproof project completed before the deadline.

Our resources were limited as we had only a few straws and some tape to work with so we had to work with what we had. Our group was made up of creative people with good ideas but no one actually had engineering or architectural skills so we needed a more ‘simple way of keeping the egg from breaking on impact. We were not able to just judge the mechanics of an instrument that can take the blow for the egg and the egg will still remain unmoved.

We developed different strategies and thought about different ideas such as creating a box around the egg that will bear all the force upon landing but we could not be sure if that would actually work. We thought of making a raft-like device that would be very cushioned on the bottom but that would not guarantee the egg staying in place and not bouncing. We also thought of making a fishing rod device where we just lower the egg onto the floor. This we deemed the most likely to work, so we made a tactical plan. In order to do this we taped the straws together in a rope-like style. We also made a device around the egg to hold it in place so that it will not move around, nor hit the floor on landing. Upon implementation, the device was lowered/dropped, it landed on the straw case around the egg and the egg did not break, so this device was deemed a success.