Egg-citing news for the physics class. Mr. Heath Andrews’ physics class conducted  an egg drop lab to see what type of enclosure would fall from a second story and have the egg not crack Aug. 24. If the students were successful, and their egg made it all the way down without cracking, then the student and their group would get to crack that egg on Mr. Andrews’ head.  The students’ main goal was to have their egg not crack.

“The project was a team builder,  how to work under a time situation. The whole purpose was to see how they worked as a group and collaborated,” Mr Andrews said.

For the experiment, the students were put into groups of four. They were given 10 cotton balls, four straws, one sheet of paper and three feet of tape. From those materials the groups were required to make an enclosure around the egg to keep it from cracking. After creating an enclosure around the egg, the whole class went out in the hallway to watch each other’s eggs drop.  Unfortunately, none of the eggs made it through the drop.

“It made me feel unconfident because all the eggs ended up cracking, however it gives me hope for what we were able to learn throughout the year,” junior Angela Talley said.

The whole purpose of the experiment was to gauge the knowledge on how the egg would impact the ground.