When three civil engineering technology students were tasked with tossing raw eggs from the second floor of the ACCE building, they soon discovered it was no yoke.
In fact, after the team got cracking on the project, just one person managed to land the object eggs-actly as planned.
“I’ve got the magic touch,” said Thomas Wilson, a first-year business student.
Wilson cracked under the pressure.
Ahmed Salem, a third-year civil engineering technology student who participated in the event, found stopping his egg from cracking (over) easy.
Salem placed the egg between two cups, and insulated it with elastics in order to absorb the shock. He then wrapped those two cups with many more cups, resembling an atom.
One of the organizers had his sunny side up.
“I feel like it was a success. One person’s egg didn’t break and that’s all we can ask for,” said Aaron Bayne, a third-year civil engineering technology student.
The organizers were hard-boiled to find participants, despite posting on the Facebook Algonquin group and sending an email to others in the program.
Dylan Cuyler, another one of the organizers, didn’t eggs-pect much, but ‘wanted more than this’.
The group of three was scrambled after having to reorganize the drop-zone
“We were just going to throw a sheet down and start going,” said Cuyler, one of the third year civil engineering technology students running the event.
The original setup was plastic wrap taped to the floor with a small pylon at each corner, as well as a plastic wrap sheet that was lifted to protect the living wall from egg splatter.
After the first two egg contraptions were dropped and splattered like Humpty Dumpty on the ground, this had to change to a more serious setup.
The pylon cones at each corner were replaced with yellow do-not-cross tape and the amount of plastic wrap on the ground was nearly tripled. These changes were still unable to completely prevent the splatter from the eggs.
The egg drop was a leadership project that had students who walked by building contraptions that are meant to prevent eggs from cracking when being dropped from the second floor. Students were able to use Popsicle sticks, cups, elastics, glue, and tape.
The egg drop has happened for at least the past four years.