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Egg Drop Challenge - Iteration #1

Total # of Achievments Earned: 17

Achievments

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 Size:
-Your materials fit inside a shoe box
Our materials were a pool noodle cut to about a little under a foot, and plastic grocery bags. It was pretty easy to fit into a shoe box, but there was no way that the materials was going to fit into a cigar box.

Material Weight:
-Your materials weigh less than 50 grams.
The total weight of our entire project was 31.4 grams. It easily assed the 50 gram mark, but just barily missed the 25 gram achievment.

Drop Accuracy:
-You hit inside the first ring!

The pool noodle worked pretty well when it was launched vertically, but not as well as when dropped horizontally. We also realized that the parachutes led to decreased accuracy, mainly because of the way the bag opened.

Egg Resilience:
-Your egg cracked but the yolk stayed inside and intact.

Our first drop was horizontally. We thought that the styrofoam would hold the egg intact, but it didn't work out to well. It would have bee nbetter to drop it vertically the first time, because the egg was inside of the center of the pool noodle, and would have avoided the majority of the impact.

Best Designs

The best designs in the class was  two bowls duct taped together with cotton balls smashed into it, and a bag of popcorn cooked and with ballons on top. The idea of using cotton balls to cushion the egg would definetly help our design, provding the egg with more shock resistance from the impact. We could also replace the plastic bags with ballons to create a softer fall, thus increasing the survivibility of our egg, allowing us to get more achievments.