Egg Drop Project:

Total Number of Achievements: 17

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The pic after the drop!!!  It survived                               This is part 3 of 3 videos (my drop)

                                               

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Justify (list and explain) your Achievements.

Material Prep:

-Generate a list of materials required for build day.

-Document a plan to ensure materials are brought in on block day.

Materials:

Bowls

cotton balls

styrafoam

napkins

duct tape

Material Size:

-Your materials fit inside a printer paper box

-Your materials fit inside a shoe box

Material Weight:  147.1g

-Your materials weigh less than 500 grams.

-Your materials weigh less than 300 grams.

-Your materials weigh less than 200 grams.

-Your materials weigh less than 150 grams.

Drop Accuracy: Watch the Video!!

-You hit the butcher paper!

-You hit inside the third ring!

-You hit inside the second ring!

-You hit inside the first ring!

Egg Resilience:

-Your egg didn't break in any way! (awarded three times)

Brainstorming:

-Create a sketch of one possible solution. Include labels. 

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What designs from your class did well?  Some designs did well were the ones that had a thick outer layer, or parashoots to slow the fall.

Based on the achievements you earned, how would you redesign your solution to score better? Based on what i've learned i would make it lighter by: take out some of the fluffy cotton balls and don't double bowl it. Also use less duct tape sinse my project weighted 147.1g. I was thinking i could make it smaller in size by using something flat as a top instead of two bowls.

Glider Challenge (pics to be added soon)

1) The challenge of this project is that we need to make a plane or glider that can fly off of a 2 story building. 

2) Some ideas I had for the glider challenge was to build a double winged triangle plane. It would take after the Wright Brothers' design how it had the poles connecting both wings. One major flaw of my idea is that it had no back end because it was a triangle, not rectangle-ish like their design.

3) Some Criteria that we need to accomplish is that it needs to:
-not break on impact
-go the farthest
or
-have the longest flight time

Some Constraints is that we can only use the materials we have. We didnt get that much balsa wood, and we can only build once so we cant mess up. There are only certain things that can attach wood successfully. Traffic on the Coronado Bridge caused people not to make it to school. We only have 4 days to complete it, 2 days of which Mr. Olson isnt going to be there.

Sketch: