Egg Drop Challenge

Students protect an egg from a 57 foot drop.

Lots and lots of teachers do the “egg drop” activity with their students. Basically, here’s how it works… each child gets an egg and some parameters for making a container that will protect the egg and keep it from breaking if it were dropped. The teacher usually perches herself high atop the roof of the school and tosses the boxes (or whatever contraption the kids come up with) to the ground as crowds of kids scream with delight. It’s great fun to hear the cheers and an occasional “darn!” when the egg drop engineers open their containers. At Weather and Science Day on May 12th, 2010, these students will test out their safe packaging skills to see if their egg will survive a 57 foot drop from the upper level of Coors Field.