For our second meeting we continued brainstorming. Matthew's dad remembered that Matthew, Anisha, and Ashwin had all done egg drops in their science classes. We were discussing this project because we thought it could help us with the part of the challenge when our device is released from 11 feet above the ground. In Matthew and Anisha's science classes the teacher allowed them only three pieces of paper and in Ashwin's class the teacher allowed him to use only environmentally friendly materials. Matthew and Anisha both had the idea of protecting their eggs with paper cones as well as parachutes and Ashwin decided to put his egg inside a grapefruit and protect the egg with jello. We talked in detail about the cone because it absorbs the impact of the fall of the egg and we thought this could be applied to our device in some way.
We also discussed their classmates' ideas as well. Many ended up using cones for their designs and some used boxes. Another student made tiny little tubes of paper and put them around the egg in a log cabin form. And another student also made tubes of paper and attached them around the egg with the ends of the tubes attached to the egg in a kind of sea urchin way. We continued our discussion for awhile and started thinking of ideas of how our own device could be protected during its own fall. Below our ideas of different ways to protect our device:
- bubble wrap
- a box with a door that could open when our device hits the ground
- parachute
- half inflated beach ball
- something that cracks open when it hits the ground
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