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Egg drop challenge ideas easy6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They start each level of testing very cautiously… drop from a few inches up, then a couple feet, then more feet… in the end, you might be dropping off a balcony or throwing against a wall. Or, you could build a structure from Lego – it’s a good engineering process to figure out how to make it sort of sturdy but sort of fragile. If you don’t have a plastic egg, you could try using another plastic container – I had to put a marble in mine to make it a little more fragile than it was with the lighter weight bouncy ball. If you drop it from a few feet with no padding, it’s guaranteed to break open. But then it’s easily re-assembled for more tests, with no mess. If you drop it from just a few inches, it does fine most of the time (but occasionally breaks even if it’s only from a few inches up). I’ve discovered that if you put a rubber bouncy ball inside of a plastic Easter egg, it has about the same degree of toughness / fragility as a raw egg. Here are our three stages of testing: Tester Egg Plus, this is a great opportunity to talk about proto-typing and testing a design multiple times with low-cost, low effort materials to make sure you have it right. Partially because it would quickly get expensive and messy. Proto-typing with a tester eggĭo we start by giving the kids a raw egg? We don’t! The ultimate goal is for kids to create a container that they can put a raw egg in and drop it from several feet and not have the egg break. This is a fun project, often done in school science programs for all ages.
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