Egg Drop

It seems like Stephen has done something like this before...a few times.  Easton had a school assignment to create a way to protect a raw egg from breaking while being dropped from a high place in his school.  Stephen and Easton worked very carefully designing a parachute with a container attached to it to hold the egg so that the fall of the egg would come to a gentle stop on the ground.  Stephen helped Janelle with the exact assignment many, many, years ago when Janelle was a wee one.  I can't remember if her egg drop was successful.  Dallin had the same assignment back in his middle school days and he also received help from Stephen creating his egg-drop parachute.  Who's next?

And did the egg successfully drop to the ground without breaking???  Sadly no, the parachute came apart on the descent with the strings coming untapped from the garbage bag parachute.  We didn't have any duct tape and used black electrical tape instead, a bad idea!  Easton said the winning egg drop seventh grader sliced open a pillow, crammed the egg inside and then placed that pillow in a larger pillow that was sliced open.  Now where's the creativity in that?