Egg Drop Experiment

I really enjoyed the egg drop experiment we performed in class. When we originally sat in groups to discuss possible ideas for designing the casing, obviously a few of them were a little out there, but a few ideas would be great for the building of our container. Once I met with my partner, Alex, he fortunately had a good idea for combining a few of the ideas on the board with a cost efficient strategy. Our idea was to put our egg in a tight styrofoam casing, which we would then place in a shoe box filled with styrofoam pieces. After that, we taped the box and blew up a bunch of balloons. We then proceeded to fill a white garbage bag with our box and approximately 12 balloons. When we started the experiment, our casing did really well. After continually dropping the egg with less and less of our casing supporting it, we discovered that we put too much protective covering around our egg. Our basic styrofoam casing was strong enough to withstand the drop from a 3 story building. If we were to do this experiment in the future, I would like to have more restrictions put on the design of our casings, almost as if we were actually designing a product for production. I think this would add a bit of realism to the project because realistically, nobody would by a garbage bag full of balloons just to protect an egg.