Can u help me with my egg drop project?

Question

i got assigned a egg drop project at school where we have to drop an egg from the top of a stadium and it must not break. im not limited to any supplies soo i have anything at my disposal. any ideas ppls?

Answer 1

Make a parachute with an eggcrate foam cradle.

Answer 2

More ideas than anything... I had the same project once in an architecture class, where we had to design one for form, and one for function.

Form:
I took a can of soup and re-labeled it as 'egg-drop soup.' Then, I cut some foam up so that it would sit around the egg and pad it inside the can. then, I epoxied some metal wire loops to the underside of the rim of the can. I used a pull-tab style lid, which would still fit back on the can when the foam pushed it into those tabs. I made a hole in the lid, and then attached it to a parachute with a grommet. the parachute was tied to the wire loops. This way, I just brought the 'soup' can to class, popped the lid, and a folded parachute popped out leaving me ready to go.

function:
I put an egg inside a balloon (don't ask me how, I think it took a couple of eggs). I then stuffed the balloon with microbeads and spread them around as padding. If there was no air in the balloon, it's tension would pack the beads tight, but if you blow a little air in with them, it works surprizingly well. Too much air, though, and your egg will float off center and break anyway. This one is tricky, but mine worked a lot better than I expected; it took a toss off a 2nd floor balcony, and then a horizontal toss of about 30ft before it broke.

Good luck, and be creative/have fun with it!

Answer 3

couldn't dropping it in something like oil help?
of course the bucket would have to be deep enough so it doesn't reach bottom. Be sure to drop the egg with the more pointed part down so it is more hydrodynamic and doesn't break upon impact. You would have to know some physics to see if this would work - or experiment with lots of eggs.
Good luck.
You might want to add a cone if the impact is too strong.

Answer 4

Bubble wrap! LOTSA bubble wrap!
Wrap it up in a ball of the stuff the size
of a basket-ball. Duct tape the whole thing.
Between slowing by air resistance, and the
failure/shielding of the wrap, your egg will do quite nicely.

Answer 5

my kids had to do that too but not from that height, good luck