Students at the middle or high school level may need to make an egg drop contraption for a science project. Egg drops are popular experiments that challenge students to think critically and design a contraption that protects an egg when dropped from a certain distance. Egg drop contraptions can take many forms to achieve the same goal: to decrease the force of impact, whether by distributing force or by decreasing the force of gravity.
A box of cereal and some plastic bags are all you really need to make a successful egg drop contraption. Fill four or five sandwich ...