Egg drop

Every year, during the week before Easter Sunday, the first graders at Lovelock elementary do an egg drop. Each child has to put a raw egg in a ziploc and then package it the way they want as long as the finished package will not exceed 7x7x7. The package doesn’t have to be square; it just cannot be longer than 7 inches in any place. The goal is for the egg to be intact after it as been chucked in the air from the announcer box and landed on the track around the football field (the track is gravel and not that even, we’re a small town after all). Olivia and Tyler worked really hard on the thing. The ziplocked egg was wrapped in toilet paper and then placed in a bigger zippy. This second zippy was wrapped in more toilet paper (almost a whole roll to be exact) and then the whole thing was covered in duct tape. They had built a prototype and thrown it and that one had survived, so they were pretty pleased with their design. However there was one downside to their design, the package looked like a soccer ball and of course Henry had to kick it around this morning. He knew he wasn’t supposed to touch it, but he’s 5 and a boy, he couldn’t help it. (For those of you who want to know, he got in big trouble. 25 minutes in the naughty corner with a promise that he was going to bed first and that if the egg was broken Daddy would probably want a say in some more punishment.) Anyway, the egg made it fine, Olivia was ecstatic and Henry very relieved. The principal tossing Olivia's egg.

Olivia's teacher, Mrs. Fecht, opening Olivia's package.

Olivia's victory face.

I have asked Olivia’s teacher why they do an egg drop and she said it’s to introduce the kids to physics. Olivia thinks that they do an egg drop because it’s fun to play with eggs!