There are many ways to ensure that our egg will survive a drop from the bleachers.  One approach would be to cushion the egg but to protect it from the large impact. A manageable but an effective way we can do this is to use the engineering design process, which is a series of measures that engineers follow to come up with a solution to a problem. The first step is to Define the Problem and the problem or goal, in this case, it was to generate an egg that will survive an impact when dropped from the bleachers and land safely onto the ground. The next step is to do background research. We investigated many ideas on how to keep our egg unimpaired after the impact.

     A logical solution or design we came up with is to use a bubble wrap. A way we can implement this onto our egg is to delicately wind the bubble wrap around the egg anywhere from two to five times, creating a thick cushion. We then Tie the ends of the bubble wrap with rubber bands to prevent the egg from slipping out through the top or bottom. An Additional idea we came up with or can execute onto our egg contraption system is to have a sponge, and egg like hole on the sponge, and put the bubble wrapped egg inside the sponge and then fold it horizontally so it would look like a cylinder and would be much simpler for the egg contraption system to work.

 

     How may you ask? There is no evidence but there is a good explanation on how we can support our idea. In science, there is aforementioned calculation F=MA (Force=Mass x Acceleration) which primarily means that if you have a low acceleration you produce a low force so the egg won't crack, (parachute) can help with that as well. What the bubble wrap and foam cushion provide is increase the time for the egg contraption system to stop, meaning the acceleration (deceleration) is lower. Therefore, have a less impact when it has landed.After dropping our egg, we re-evaluated on our eggs performance.

 

     Overall our contraption system did better than what we had thought it would do. We did use a plastic bag as others used a small parachute, the reason we chose this is because it would catch more air and the more air it catches, the slower it would fall. The overall landing took approximately 7 seconds but would take more time as the height increases. As a team, we decided to keep the design because we did our research we tested it multiple time and have come to the conclusion that our egg will survive any height. Due to the fact that our model has been cracked proof by bubble wrap and carefully tested to the limit.