Tulsa 5th Graders Put Creative Inventions To The Test With Egg Drop Challenge

Fifth graders from Eisenhower International tested their creative inventions to see if eggs could survive different drops from up to 30 feet in the air.

Alice Martens was determined to keep her egg safe at all costs. "I need to compact the egg in super well,” Martens said.

The goal of the egg drop is for students to create a container for their eggs that will protect it from breaking and the students could use any materials they wanted.

Some, like Kyva Smith, got creative and used materials like popcorn, pool noodles and tissue boxes.

"My design is made out of bubble wrap on the outside and in the inside airbags they put in packages,” Smith said.

While others, like Martens, took a simpler approach with a shoebox.

"Inside is some Styrofoam,” Martens said. “It’s packed and my egg is inside an Easter egg with cotton balls around it."

Martens' egg survived the first drop at 20 feet.

She and only a handful of other students moved on to the 30-foot drop.

"It's really interesting to see that with a ton of packaging it can survive 30 feet and 20 feet,” Martens said.

Martens’ egg survived 30 feet. She was only one of 15 students.