Egg Drop

One of the projects that the lovely art students of DSU have taken on is to create an architecturally sound contraption to house an egg... with toothpicks, skewers, and hot glue! The goal was to drop these contraptions from the fire escape without breaking the eggs. The project is an interesting mix of art and science. Some of the creations that resulted from the assignment were a success, while some were a failure, but most had a creative aesthetic. I wasn't able to catch every experiment on tape (and some of the videos just didn't turn out), but I do have a few to show off.

This was one of the more intricate looking contraptions. The toothpicks and skewers were arranged in a way that helped them to absorb the shock of the impact. When the contraption hit the ground, the egg stayed intact.

This is one of the contraptions that didn't work so well! It's a little hard to see, and I can't remember quite what it looked like... but it just goes to show that not every creation was a success. Some of these looked very rad, but it's a difficult task to make them structurally sound.

This was my favourite creation of the day. From the outside, it looked like a little box. It was likely a series of boxes inside of other boxes-or perhaps a jumble of toothpicks arranged tightly enough to create a tiny box! I wish I could have cut it in half to see what it looked like from the inside, because I think it worked. And it bounced on the ground quite a few times.