Dreadful Dropping of the Goods!

 

Hey people, 

I hope you are having an amazing week! On Wednesdays, Toroa students have technology at Christchurch East school. Half of the hub goes before lunch, and the other half goes after lunch. While not at technology the teachers set some fun tasks for the students. 

This Wednesday just been, we started doing a bit of S.T.E.A.M (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) work. Our first experiment was to do with dropping the goods (the problem is stated in the slide below). To represent this we had to get into groups of around 5, each group was given the following equipment:

• 3 sheets of A4 photocopy paper
• 1 plastic bag
• 1 metre of string
• 1 sheet of A5 thin card\
• Cellotape
• Scissors 
• Something to write with
• Paper to sketch design on

We were allowed to use these things, and only these things, no exceptions. Along with this we were given 1 egg. The aim of this was to create something so that the egg could be dropped in it without breaking (from upstairs in the makerspace, approximately 3 metres high). 

As soon as we had shown a teacher the sketch of our design we were given an egg, just one. We had to look after it until it was time to put it in its package and get ready for the drop. There were no exceptions (although ours broke before we even had completed our package, we got another one, sneakily). 

Below is a slide going into further detail about how our drop went and why it was successful or not:  

I hope you learnt something!

Have you done something like this before? If so then how do your drop go? Do you enjoy learning about S.T.E.A.M? 

See ya later!

Soph  :D