Egg Challenge 4: Ultimate Egg Drop

Original Design Plan

Hole in the Road (2nd design)

Modified Design Plan

Building Process

Structure before final launch

Landing Location

NOG SURVIVED!

The purpose of this project was to construct a vehicle that will land in a designated landing zone while protecting a raw egg from a fall.

The directions were to create a paper structure that is tested to adequately protect an egg from breaking. The structure shall be tested for both lateral and vertical protection.

At first, we built a frisbee structure that when we tested it, we did not like the results. So we decided to build a new structure with a completely different design. Then we trashed that design and returned to our original design although this time we changed the location of the egg.

Our final design was a frisbee-looking structure because when deciding the structure at the beginning, we thought about real life objects that are made to fly and decided on a frisbee. When I did my research I figured out that heavier frisbee's fly further than lighter ones. So for the design exemption we requested to have the weight limit be 200 grams so that we could make the structure heavier. Our egg survived the flight because we had it securely fixed in a ball in the center of the disk. The ball inside had crumbled and shredded paper. The disk also landed quite smoothly so that also helped the egg. Next time, I would make sure that the weight all around the frisbee is equal because if it is not the disk will not fly straight.

Three engineering design components that I learned from this class and that I applied to my egg drop project are that cylinders are great for protecting a structure from heavy objects falling onto it. Also, shredded paper is good for keeping an item stable inside the structure. Lastly, crumbled paper is also good for protecting a structure from a fall.

(sorry for filming the videos the "wrong" way)