Friday, March 25, 2011

Egg Drop Challenge: Iteration 1

2) Total # of Achievements Earned: 11

3) Post an image of your Egg Drop solution.





4) Justify (list and explain) your Achievemtns. Use images as appropriate. For organization's sake, use the categories provided in the Egg Drop Achievement List.


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

My group wrote three possible solutions on a piece of paper. One of them was just an egg with aluminum foil wrapped around it, forming a big ball of foil. The second one was a parachute. You would put the egg in a small dixie cup, then there would be a piece of aluminum foil to make it look like a parachute. Our last solution was just a pillow and we would drop an egg on it.

Material Prep

-Generate a list of materials required for build day.

Material Size:

-Your materials fit inside a printer paper box
-Your materials fit inside a shoe box

Drop Accuracy:

-You hit the butcher paper!
-You hit the Bullseye!

We laid a pillow on the bullseye, then when we dropped the egg, it hit the pillow.

Egg Resilience:

-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)

5) What designs from your class did well? Based on the achievements you earned, how would you redesign your solution to score better? Be specific (sketches with labeling work well for this).

-Some designs that worked out were just wrapping the egg into something or making a parachute.
-Our solution was great, since the egg didn't break. The only thing wrong was that we didn't earn any achievements in the weight category.

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