Discovery Center to Host the Egg Drop Engineering Competition

When it comes to eggs, they are fragile.  It doesn't take much to break and egg.  So why would anyone want to drop an egg from 20 feet in the air.  That would be an incredible mess.  Well that's exactly what is happening at the Don Harrington Discovery Center tomorrow.  It's the 2nd Annual Egg Drop Engineering competition.  The DHDC has teamed up with the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering for the competition.

Over a 165 teams with come together at the Discovery Center starting at 9am tomorrow morning.  This event gives students the opportunity to use their engineering skills as well as critical thinking to come up with some really inventive ideas. These student have been giving the goal of creating a  object that will cradle a uncooked egg.  This object will have to keep this egg safe as it is dropped from 20 feet in the air.  These students are given a set of criteria on the design guidelines and objects that can and cannot be used.

Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places in over all teams in the different age divisions for the best design.

The eggs will begin dropping at 9am at the Don Harrintgton Discovery Center at 9am and the event will conclude with the awards ceremony at 1pm.