Egg Drop

For the egg drop project, I was partners with Naufal. We originally were very ambitious with the design of our box, wanting to incorporate everything from multiple springs to peanut butter. However, we also didn't want to spend money on the project, so our ideas were scaled down. We noticed the empty Xbox 360 box in his dorm, and that became the inspiration for our outer shell. We needed something soft to protect the egg on the inside of the box, so we came up with socks and towels, which seemed sufficient.
After constructing the box, we put the egg inside and decided we should test it before the actual event. We figured that we would be dropping it from a high place, so the logical test was me holding it as high as I could and then dropping it. This seemed like an easy test, but our project ended up working the entire time... and is still working on the second floor balcony.