Last week we were charged with the assignment of dropping a egg from 12ft without cracking it using 9 straws and 2ft of tape and teams were allotted 25 minutes to plan. This was a high pressure situation for us but we handled it as best we could by first defining our goals as quickly as we could which was to get Humpty Dumpty from point A to point B without a crack. We evaluated our resources by making approximations and artist extrapolations which were not the best, clearly no one in the group were here for art design. We make approximations of the length and thichkness of the straws as well as the weight of the egg and how much tape allotted. Many designs were made such as a basket with a line of straws attached by tape. But we decided to use our final design which was a pyramid which encased our egg. We went through all the steps which would mean success but that's not what happened, humpty fell and never got back up. All in all, we showed that we could pool all our talents together and formulate a plan and execute it as best to our abilities.
Here's a link of different variations of the egg drop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mod0fSma7Ao&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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