Audience: Post Primary Students. Could be suitable for Primary 6th class

The idea of this challenge is to get students working in teams and coming up with a design for a device that can protect an egg when it’s dropped. Play the video for the students to be challenged by Mark the Science Guy!

Your friend downstairs wants to boil an egg for breakfast but has run out of eggs! You have decided to use your engineering know-how to pass down the egg from your balcony window to their kitchen, in the apartment on the ground floor.

Can you fight gravity and pass the egg downstairs in one piece without cracking? Can you design a system to protect an egg from cracking or breaking from a high fall?

Teacher video: https://youtu.be/Ie9cPLJnavg

Students video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJk3CZkF2P4

Worksheet: https://www.engineersireland.ie/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=z0AdhRSkBg4%3d&portalid=0