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A physics teacher on a lift drops a package designed to protect three eggs from a fall of ten meters

The egg drop contest is an experiment usually performed by college or primary school students. Competitors typically attempt to create a device that can keep a raw chicken egg intact when dropped from a height. Students are asked to build a device made from a limited or unlimited amount of materials to support an egg when dropped from various heights.

Naked egg drop

A variation of the egg drop competition is the naked egg drop, in which an exposed raw egg is dropped into a container below that must catch the egg and keep it from breaking.

Egg hurls

Another common variation on the egg drop competition is the egg hurl competition, where the containers are hurled by a device such as a trebuchet or air cannon. This variation is often used by schools that lack tall places from which to drop the containers.^[1]^[2] The egg hurl variation adds additional difficulties to the design of the container, since it is initially hurled at high speed and has to cope with horizontal as well as vertical velocities upon landing.

Regional competitions

Often schools work together to make larger competitions that pit more students against each other. One of the larger regional egg drop competitions is the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition that takes place during Engineers Week (late February) each year.^[3]

Egg drop is one of 18 events in the North Carolina Science Olympiad elementary competition. More than 100 teams compete in this annual competition.^[4]

References

^ Canyon High School Egg Hurl Competition Archived 18 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "The Rowntree's Randoms Egg Throwing Championships – Swaton 28 June" BBC-Lincolnshire, June 2009
^ "Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition". Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
^ "North Carolina Science Olympiad Egg Drop". Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2010.

[1] Canyon High School Egg Hurl Competition Archived 18 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "The Rowntree's Randoms Egg Throwing Championships – Swaton 28 June" BBC-Lincolnshire, June 2009

[3] "Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition". Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2008.

[4] "North Carolina Science Olympiad Egg Drop". Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2010.

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-[[Image:Eggdrop1.JPG|thumb|right|300px|A package designed to protect three [[eggs (food)|eggs]] from a fall of ten meters is dropped by a [[physics]] teacher on a lift.]]
+[[Image:Eggdrop1.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|A physics teacher on a lift drops a package designed to protect three [[eggs (food)|eggs]] from a fall of ten meters]]
-The '''egg drop contest''' is an experiment usually performed by [[college]] or primary [[school]] students. Competitors typically attempt to create a device that can keep a raw [[chicken]] [[egg (food)|egg]] intact when dropped from a height. Students are asked to build a device made from a limited amount of materials to support an egg when dropped from various heights.
+The '''egg drop contest''' is an experiment usually performed by [[college]] or primary [[school]] students. Competitors typically attempt to create a device that can keep a raw [[chicken]] [[egg (food)|egg]] intact when dropped from a height. Students are asked to build a device made from a limited or unlimited amount of materials to support an egg when dropped from various heights.
-==Naked Egg Drop==
-A variation of the Egg Drop competition is the Naked Egg Drop, in which an exposed raw egg is dropped into a container below that must catch the egg and keep it from breaking. Heights are increased until the egg breaks or the catching container is missed.
-==Egg Hurl==
+==Naked egg drop==
+A variation of the egg drop competition is the naked egg drop, in which an exposed raw egg is dropped into a container below that must catch the egg and keep it from breaking.
-A common variation on the Egg Drop competition is the Egg Hurl competition, where the containers are hurled by a device such as a [[trebuchet]] or [[Pneumatic weapon|air cannon]].  This variation is often used by schools that lack tall structures from which to drop the containers.<ref>[http://staff.hartdistrict.org/glyle/projects/egg_hurl_project/index.htm Canyon High School Egg Hurl Competition]</ref> <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2009/06/15/egg_throwing09_feature.shtml "The Rowntree's Randoms Egg Throwing Championships - Swaton 28 June"] ''[[BBC]]''-[[Lincolnshire]], June 2009</ref>  The Egg Hurl variation adds additional difficulties to the design of the container, since it is initially hurled at high speed and has to cope with horizontal as well as vertical velocities upon landing. Usually the best way to protect your egg is with paper mesh. {{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}
+==Egg hurls==
+Another common variation on the egg drop competition is the egg hurl competition, where the containers are hurled by a device such as a [[trebuchet]] or [[Pneumatic weapon|air cannon]].  This variation is often used by schools that lack tall places from which to drop the containers.<ref>[http://staff.hartdistrict.org/glyle/projects/egg_hurl_project/index.htm Canyon High School Egg Hurl Competition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518070740/http://staff.hartdistrict.org/glyle/projects/egg_hurl_project/index.htm |date=18 May 2008 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2009/06/15/egg_throwing09_feature.shtml "The Rowntree's Randoms Egg Throwing Championships – Swaton 28 June"] ''[[BBC]]''-[[Lincolnshire]], June 2009</ref> The egg hurl variation adds additional difficulties to the design of the container, since it is initially hurled at high speed and has to cope with horizontal as well as vertical velocities upon landing.
 ==Regional competitions==
+[[File:SECME Egg-drop.jpg|thumb|An egg drop as part of a SECME Olympiad at the [[University of Florida]]]]
-Often schools work together to make larger competitions that pit more students against each other.  One of the larger regional Egg Drop Competitions is the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition that takes place during Engineer's Week (late February) each year. <ref>[http://www.wsfceggdrop.com Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition]</ref>
+Often schools work together to make larger competitions that pit more students against each other.  One of the larger regional egg drop competitions is the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition that takes place during Engineers Week (late February) each year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wsfceggdrop.com/ |title=Forsyth County Egg Drop Competition |access-date=17 March 2008 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415022255/http://wsfceggdrop.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
-Egg Drop is one of 18 events in the [http://www.sciencenc.com/ North Carolina Science Olympiad] elementary competition. More than 100 teams compete in this annual competition. <ref>[http://www.sciencenc.com/event-help/EggDrop.php North Carolina Science Olympiad Egg Drop ]</ref>
+Egg drop is one of 18 events in the [[North Carolina Science Olympiad]] elementary competition. More than 100 teams compete in this annual competition.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sciencenc.com/event-help/EggDrop.php |title=North Carolina Science Olympiad Egg Drop  |access-date=16 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912013426/http://www.sciencenc.com/event-help/EggDrop.php |archive-date=12 September 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 ==See also==
-*[[Egg tossing]]
+* [[Egg tossing]]
-*[[Modern Family (season 3)]] episode "Egg Drop"
-*[[List of Shake It Up episodes|Shake It Up]] episode "Egg it Up"
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
-{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2011}}
+{{Eggs}}
-[[Category:Physics education]]
+[[Category:Physics competitions]]
 [[Category:Science education]]
 [[Category:Engineering education]]
 [[Category:Eggs in culture]]
 [[Category:Competitions]]
+[[Category:Science demonstrations]]

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