Week #11 Egg Drop Challenge

Taking a break from the architecture dream house project we started the egg drop designing process. The challenge was to build an apparatus that will safely carry an egg down thirty feet onto a target. There were many different achievements availiable to earn. I am claiming 26 Acheivement Points!!

Achievement 1: Brainstorming- Create 3 sketches with labels (3pts)

Acheivement 2: Material Prep- Create list of materials and document a plan to ensure the supplies will be here on block day (2 pts)

1. Plastic grocery bag
2. 3 feet of tin foil
3. 5 straws
4. handful of cotton balls
5. String
6. Duct tape
7. 2 Dixie Cups

Plan- the majority of the materials are already in the classroom, so it was very easy to make sure we had all the supplies. The only thing we brought from home were the cotton balls and the grocery bag. I brought the bag by carrying my lunch in it and just threw in the cotton balls.

Achievement 3: Fits in a cigar box- our box is a little smaller than a cigar box (3pts)

Achievment 4: Material Wheight- without the egg our weight was 31 grams (6 pts)

-Your materials weigh less than 500 grams.

-Your materials weigh less than 300 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 200 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 150 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 100 grams.
-Your materials weigh less than 50 grams.

Achievement 5: Drop Accuracy- we got it to drop into the third ring (2 pts)
-You hit the butcher paper!
-You hit inside the third ring!

Achievement 6: Drop Time- our egg left the from the above the rail to the ground in about 3 seconds (3 pts)
-Your solution takes less than 1/2 second to hit the target!
-Your solution takes more than 2 seconds to hit the target!
-Your solution takes more than 3 seconds to hit the target!

Achievement 7: Egg Resilience- YAY!!! our egg failed to break (3 pts)

-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)
-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)
-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)

Achievement 8: Calculation Achievements- we have gotten a physics calculation and are trying to get two more from the math teachers that will be posted later (3 pts)

Achievement 9: Other Achievement- create a new name for one of the existing acheivements (1 pt)

-Change Drop Accuracy to the Egg Splat Bullseye



Second prototype we didn't use because it worked worse than our first, but at least we had to options.