"The universal convention is that the egg should be in a vertical orientation when it hits the ground," Cohen told Physics ...

One of the MIT team's eggs, seen here cracking from a compression test. © Tal Cohen et al/Communication Physics Here’s hoping Humpty Dumpty reads the news. In ...

Material you will use around the egg. Design and build your lander. Attach the parachute. The landing site will be a 3. 1 × 1 ft target. From the top of a ladder over the target. 4. Drop your lander.

PALM BAY, FL (May 6, 2014) – Space Florida, the state’s spaceport authority and aerospace development organization, is pleased to announce the winners of the 5 th Annual Planetary Lander Egg ...

If this sounds familiar, it is because it builds on the egg drop project from the Teaching Channel we talked about before. The materials for that lesson have the basic outline of the drop stand ...

Watch Students drop eggs from 105 feet on top of Vulcan The 26th annual Brent Newman Egg Drop competition was ... The eggs were cushioned with a variety of materials -- paper, bubble wrap, even ...

DCAD hosted its annual Egg Drop Thursday, where about 90 “3D Design” students ... Students had to make their structures using a specific list of materials including three sheets of basswood, string, ...

The egg drop challenge is a common fixture in STEM ... But they proved that’s not the case,” says Marc Meyers, a materials scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who was not ...