Synergy+Egg+Drop

Bella Farkas October 9, 2015 Last week at Hunt Middle School, Team Synergy hosted its egg drop. Students were given a few weeks to construct a suitable containment for an egg using only fifteen Popsicle sticks, fifteen straws, five rubber bands, one sheet of paper, one meter of string, and one meter of tape (and an egg “of course”). Then, on the day of the drop, their objective was to reconstruct their containment, placing the egg in or onto the containment before waiting anxiously by to see if their egg would survive a series of drops. I was told by Colin and Sage that the eggs were dropped off the ladder of a firetruck once from 40 feet and twice from 100 feet. If a student’s egg survived the drops from each height, they were considered a “winner”.

I spoke with both Colin and Sage, talking a bit about their personal designs and ideas, whether or not they were successful and what they would have changed had they been given the opportunity. “My design was a crate that had two rubber bands strapped to it and parachute that I copied”, Colin told me. In addition, he told me that he would not change anything about his design because it was successful, surviving all but the last drop, which he assures me was due to the fact it was dropped in the wrong direction causing it to break on the windshield of the firetruck (Colin considers himself an honorary winner). He said he did, however, appreciate his classmate Christian's design, who apparently made a large parachute connected to a bowl-shaped platform into which he secured his egg with tape. Sage, too, had a successful design involving a parachute and she would not change anything had she been given the opportunity.

Overall, the egg drop was a very successful event with many innovative designs including those of five “winners”, but it was also an overall great time for everyone involved. Congratulations to Team Synergy!

Written by Bella Farkas Facts and information from Colin and Sage