Design and Build a Machine to Stop an Egg from Breaking

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The challenge involves designing and building a machine to prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from the third story, using only 100 straws and a meter of tape. Participants are encouraged to leverage their intuition and creativity while focusing on testing and refining their designs. The straws have limited flexibility and tend to crack under force, which necessitates innovative solutions to absorb impact. Emphasis is placed on iterative testing to improve the design's effectiveness. Success hinges on effectively utilizing the available materials to create a protective structure for the egg.
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In physics we have about a week to come with a design and build a machine to stop the egg from breaking.
It will be launched from the third story
We only can use the materials the teacher ( about 100 straws and a meter of tape)
THATS ALL WE GET! The sraws bend a little but are not very flexible and when a force (hand) slms into them they crack in the middle
 
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get 10,000 straws and 100m of tape and then start building and dropping. use your intuition to get started, but test, test some more, and then do some more tests; you get the idea :smile:.
 

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