Teams
of young researchers brainstormed ways to protect a raw egg — sometimes
using bubble wrap — so that it could be dropped from various heights
without breaking at a major competition in Washington, D.C., last fall.
Students from around the country came together to work on engineering
challenges.
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2 comments:
That was really interesting. It was cool to see how it started out as a science project and turned out to be a success on the national level. It was interesting to see all the steps that need to be taken before you test it out for real. I wonder how they came up with the idea of bubble wrap though. I guess that bubble wrap is thick and protective. The packing peanuts is smart because the egg just keeps on shifting and get comfortable. When it hits the ground the peanuts rub against the egg so when it crashes it rubs together so it never hits a hard spot. It is unusual that most of them were home-schooled but all came together and were in this competition. I think that it was cool since we did somewhat the same thing in room 4. It is interesting to see that if you have all the supplies they had, what is the best combo.
That was pretty interesting. It is cool to know that something like this could relate to something as serious as a car crash. Like Corey said, it was cool to see which combinations worked and which one's did not work as well. Bubble wrap and packing peanuts seems like a good way to do it. Those two things are used for packaging and making sure things don't get broken, and they for sure did that here. What was nice to know was that even using the same materials, sometimes the egg will crash, and other times it will not. That was very interesting to me. Overall, that was a good article with an interesting concept.
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