Egg Drop Challenge!!!!

• Team up with a partner
• Bethany Purdy
• Define the challenge, criteria and constraints
• The challenge: construct a barrier to protect the egg from breaking when dropped off the 2nd floor balcony of the 700 building
• right now there are no constraints or criteria
• but to get as many points as possible for the achivements one has to:
• make the barrier a certain size
• biggest: material fits into a paper box
• smallest: material fits into an altoid box
• make the barrier weigh a certain amount
• Brainstorm solutions
• first:
• shoe box, bubble wrap, tape, paper towels, tin foil, baggie, 2 shirts
• second:
• bubble wrap, tape, baggie
• third:
• pillow, tin foil, tape, baggie
• Identify materials to bring in for "Build Day" (block day)
•  2 shirts, paper towels, tape, baggie, phone box, bubble wrap, tin foil

Achievements:
Brainstorming-Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels.
-Create a sketch of another possible solution. Include labels.
-Create a sketch of a third possible solution. Include labels.
-Use a decision matrix to justify the approach you chose.



problem: there is a tie between design 1 and design 2
solution: look into how many achievements for each would be earned, and pick the one with the higher achievements

• Design 1: 12 achievements
• 2 out of 4 size
• 1 out of 7 weight
• 3 out of 5 drop
• 6 out of crack vs intact
• Design 2: 13 achievements
• 3 out of 4 size
• 7 out of 7 weight
• 3 out of 5 drop
• 1 out of 6 cracked vs intact

With all this information, in order to earn more achievements we should have picked design 2 instead of design 1!

Material Prep
-Generate a list of materials required for build day.

• 2 shirts
• paper towels (1 ft)
• tape
• (tape box together)
• bubble wrap (3 in X 3 in)
• phone box
• tin foil (3 in X 3 in)

-Document a plan to ensure materials are brought in on block day.

• Bethany came over to my house and we gathered all the materials
• We put all the materials into the box
• I put them next to my backpack the night before so I wouldn't forget
• I brought the materials to school with all my other lacrosse, and art stuff (big load)!!

Build Achievements

Material Size:

(your egg is not included in the material size)

(air is ubiquitous and not included in material size. "Rare" commodities like helium are.)

-Your materials fit inside a printer paper box

• A phone box is smaller than a printer box, so it fit in the printer paper box

-Your materials fit inside a shoe box

• A phone box is smaller than a shoe box, so it fit inside a shoe box as well

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Material Weight: (your egg is not included in material weight)

-Your materials weigh less than 500 grams.

• Our box filled with materials weighed 326 grams which means it is below 500 grams

Drop Achievements

Drop Accuracy:

• Eventhough it says we hit inside the 3rd ring, I saw it to where we hit inside the 2nd ring, but then it bounced out to the 3rd ring.
• It is hard to keep something moving so fast to stay in one spot when it is dropped

-You hit the butcher paper!

-You hit inside the third ring!

-You hit inside the second ring!

Egg Resilience:

When we unwrapped the egg it was still completely intact, no cracks or anything!

-Your egg broke but the yolk remained intact.

-Your egg cracked but the yolk stayed inside and intact.

-Your egg cracked but was still together.

-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)

Calculation Achievements

-Describe an aspect of the event using arithmetic.

• materials and weight
• weigh weight of solution and weight of egg

-Describe an aspect of the event using geometry.

• measure the size of the rings
• measure the height of the drop
• measure the angle of the drop to the center (in order to hit bullseye)

-Describe an aspect of the event using algebra.

• acceleration equations
• gravity, force, motion, velocity

-Describe an aspect of the event using calculus.

• relates to physics and newton's laws of motion

-Seek out additional instruction from your math teacher in support of a Calculation Achievement.

Communicate Results Achievements

-Create promotional materials for your design.

-Model your solution using CAD software.

-Create a multiview drawing of your CAD model.

-Dimension your multiview drawing.

Other Achievements

-Come up with a clever name Mr. Olson uses for an existing Achievment.

-Design an Achievement Mr. Olson approves for next year's Egg Drop Challenge.

-Suggest a redesign to the activity that Mr Olson confirms he will use for next year's Egg Drop Challenge.