Student participation at the beginning of our workshop. In this photo, our undergraduate engineering students are collaborating with the middle school participants to help design their egg-drop systems. The goal was to design a structure to protect an egg from a 2nd or 3rd floor drop test. Middle school students were divided into 5 different 4-member groups.
Students presenting their designs to the group
Group names and slogans for the egg-drop
Fabricating the hardware
Testing from the 2nd floor
The egg didn't break!
Another team succeeds!
Josh and I also tried
Success!
Dropping eggs from the 3rd floor
With the help of the XSAS team members, all 5 student teams designed great systems to protect an egg from a 2nd and 3rd floor drop. Not a single egg broke all day (even though we had towels prepared just in case). Stay tuned for more pictures and updates from our next Outreach event on March 20th.
Thanks,
Patrick
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