Regional Egg Drop Competition (CWRU vs. CSU vs. CCC)
TBA

The winning students from CWRU's "Amazing Egg Drop" competition compete with engineering students from Cleveland State University and Cuyahoga Community College to determine who can build the most protective container. Containers will be dropped in three successive free-falls starting at the second floor and working up to a maximum height of 100 feet. The object is to design and construct a container that will have and egg placed within that can be dropped three times without the egg breaking or cracking.

Official Rules

1. Any shape container that will fit into an 8" x 8" x 8" cube box
2. The student must open the container after each drop for inspection, then re-seal it.
3. The same container must be used for all three drops
4. No balloons, fins, streamers or parachute/airfoil/twisting/rotating effects permitted
5. Only one student is allowed to design & build the container (out of any material)
6. The student must be an active undergraduate from one of the above schools.
7. The supplied egg will be a Commercial Standard Grade A (Medium Size) chicken egg. Eggs cannot be tampered with, or altered physically or chemically.
8. Each container must fall from a designated starting point and land withing a designated landing area as designated by the head Contest Judge.
9. Each school is permitted three active entires with two optional back-up entries.
10. If after three drops more than one egg has survived, then the lightest empty container, as determined by the container's "weigh-in" weight, will win.

Prizes