Operation Egg Drop

In Operation Egg Drop the Navigators and the Spirits were given the task to design and engineer a working parachute that would bring a raw egg safely to the ground from atop the Big Toy on our playground. 

The Planning Stage:

• What is our task?
• Who will do what?
• What will we need?
• What are our hypotheses?

The Design Stage:

• Gathering materials
• Putting it all together
• Learning to work together

Test # 1

Conclusions after first test:

• Most of the parachutes collapse and fall too quickly.

Back to the drawing board:

• I think...
• Let's try...
• What if...

Test #2

• Bigger parachutes
• Lighter egg containers
• Strings that are even lengths
• Human testers to test crash impact :) 
• We start to have team names (collaboration at its best!)
• Some try Leonardo's design

Leonardo da Vinci's design

The final test with a real egg, celebrations and reflections:

• Although the parachutes don't fully fill up with air and float down, none of the eggs break. 
• Success! Celebrations!

Other lessons learned:

• We almost forgot to try a control. What if the wood chips had softened the blow? So we dropped an egg without a parachute. The wood chips had not softened the blow and it broke!
• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again! 
• We can work together, even when it's hard, and can accomplish great things.