Egg Drop Challenge Competition Results

Going into the challenge our container weighted about 215.3 grams and had dimensions of 24x23x13.  After a successful full drop of 5m in 0.976sec our egg was in perfect shape and we managed to earn 92.6 egg points, which though is not the best, I was pretty happy with it being our container was so heavy. (photo credit to nic)

Our egg after a successful drop

I think one of the biggest restrictions while building was the size factor.  In order for our container to fly like we wanted it too we had to have a far larger wingspan than we could get inside of the regulations.  This caused us to have to change how our container worked and how we were going to approach the challenge.  I think the most successful part of our design was using the insulation for the padding.  It worked very well and kept the egg unbroken through some of the harder falls that we endured.  It took away a lot of the force and softened the blow considerably.  In order to safely support 2 eggs instead of one I wouldn't change a lot to the design except maybe putting a bit more padding in between the two eggs to keep them from breaking on each other.  Other than that I think it is big enough and the lift on the wings great enough to keep the eggs from breaking.