6) Today (Wednesday Feb. 19th) we met to make our second experiment and try out our new design which we planned on Monday. Aside from shoving the egg down deeper we also decided to cut out and add the the egg holder piece from the egg carton to help keep it in place. This is what our model looked like.

7) The drop was a success!!!! Even though we dropped it from a tremendous height (11th floor), the egg had survived. It had a small crack but there was no yoke leaking out. The crumpling worked perfectly to cushion the egg and absorb the shock of impact. If it worked at this height it will work anywhere!

3) Today (Monday Feb. 17th) we met to construct our model and make our try it out for the first time.

4) When we dropped our design it flipped over and fell head first, therefore the cone did not crumple and the egg splattered all over the floor.

5) The feedback we got from our experiment was very constructive. We found out that because the egg was at the top of the cone it had a terrible center of gravity, thus allowing the smallest amount of wind to tip over the model. We decided to shove the egg deeper into the cone so that it had a stronger center of gravity (like the Rooney vs Crouch example). Since the flaps didn't seem to help much we also decided to remove those. Here is our new blueprint.

1) Today (Thursday Feb. 13th) we met to brainstorm and decide what we would like our design to look like. First we thought of all the different attributes which might help our model perform its best. We drew ideas of what we believed to be these most important and effective characteristics.

2) After thinking about these different traits that we would need to incorporate into 1 design, we came up with our final model. We drew a blueprint of it explaining the different features. - We concluded that it would have a cone for aerodynamic purposes so that air could flow equally along its side and therefore cause the model not only to be fast, but also to NOT curve or flip (like tennis ball topspin example of unequal airflow).

- We made the design out of paper so that it would weigh less (a quality that is taken note of to win); and also to have less Gravitational Potential Energy, thus lowering the amount of energy that must be conserved when it makes impact.

- The purpose of the coned bottom is to crumple up absorb the shock so the egg won't break

- We added flaps to the model to help prevent it from flipping.

- We decided to add tissue or foam around the egg so that it would stay put once the cone hit the ground. If we did not do this, then according to newtons law of motion/inertia the egg would want to continue in the same direction and break.