Sounds like fun, right? Well....except that it has to free fall from 3ish stories up. And the materials list is absurd. No tape, no cartons, no pod, no fluff, no more than 1 sheet or paper, no parachute, no wings, no rubber bands, no...no...no...no!
Her teacher apparently Googled successful egg drop designs and made sure NONE of those materials were allowed in order to really frustrate her students....I mean CHALLENGE them (ahem.)
And the best part? If your egg breaks, the highest grade you can earn is a "C." Gee, thanks.
That being said, I love science and a good challenge and Kaela is a good sport......so off we went.
Here she is.....test "dropping" the design...which survived numerous 2 story drops from home.
Aw, nuts...CRACKAGE! AGH!!! 3 stories was just 1 story too high! The wind caught it and flipped it about 6 inches from the ground. Not a problem, we can FIX that.....
So we crawl back out the rabbit hole we came in from...
And jump back over the fence we jumped over...
5 comments:
Sounds like fun !!!
Richard had to do an egg toss for Scout camp one year .... it was launched from a huge catapault ..... there was no list of banned materials though :-)
Hope she does well ..... she'll definately have lots of laughs in the process :-)
Well gosh don't post a photo of your illegal going on's. ;)
Good luck
Chris =]
Photo proof mommy breaks the law!!! AWESOME!!!!
You are a breath of fresh air and I had to do that in college...our teams egg smushed quickly, best of luck to her!
Ha! I can't believe ya'll broke in to test the eggs. I think Zack had to do something similar in 8th grade. Now he has to build a bridge with 150 popsicle sticks and adhesive and base his design on an 18th or 19th century American bridge. What?!!!!!! :/ Have a great day. Tammy
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