Egg Drop Challenge: Objective. Age Range: ... Whether you and the family choose to drop a straw capsule from a 4-foot height or send your egg off with a parachute from a two-story landing, ...

Things are falling from the sky at Newhart Middle School. Strange contraptions were tossed off the middle school’s roof on Thursday and Friday. Packages made of tape, plastic straws and an egg ...

Egg drop competitions are a staple of high school and college physics classes. The goal is for students to build a device using bubble wrap, straws, or various other materials designed to hold an ...

pipe cleaners, condiment cups, straws, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, rubber bands, strings, plastic bags. the goal is to either protect the egg from a high drop that we will do later, ...

The challenge: students are tasked with using everyday items like straws, paper and string to build a protective capsule for the egg, allowing it to be dropped from various heights without breaking.

MILWAUKEE - The annual Milwaukee School of Engineering Egg Drop put students' engineering skills to the test Friday, March 19. Every year around St. Patrick's Day, MSOE students honor the patron ...

He decided on a pyramid-shaped design of straws taped together that slowed the egg’s fall. “You want your kid to have the one that makes it through the drop,” Krissy Scheres said.

Directly surrounding the egg is foam and cardboard to hold the device together. Straws jut out from all sides to act like a crumple zone, waiting to absorb energy from the drop. But most ...