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Egg Drop Challenge

Project Summary

This project was super fun and very educational. The skills I learned during this project were how to be creative and let our imagination run free, to build a structure correctly, make quick prototypes, and teamwork.The content I learned during this project was when the egg is falling it creates a large amount of downwared momentum because gravity was pulling it towards the ground. As the egg falls unprotected it  increases it's downward speed and it will splatter because the pavement is pushing back on the egg. So to fix that problem you create a device and protect the eggs so as it picks up downward momentum the device will decrease the speed of the falling egg and will cushion the impact of the egg against the pavement.

Evidence of Learning

Work Sample 1: I decided to put my groups slide show presentation because it tells how we made our device, our inspiration, and our egg drop device.

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HAD.ppt (14.73 MB)
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Work Sample 2: I put this picture because it shows our egg drop device that I am very proud of because it survived the drop! :)

Egg

Reflection

My strengths in this project were being able to work in a group and creativity. My weaknesses would be taking too long on protoyping just for the simple fact that I wanted it to come out perfect. If I were to do this project over I would have left the structure the way it was but add more mass at the bottom, not being gone the week before the drop would have been helpful as well.