On Wednesday January 25, the four classes were surprised with a spirit competition during long lunch: the egg drop. Given an hour to work with their peers, students had to create a device that would prevent an egg from cracking when dropped off the balcony of Nichols Hall onto a specific target.

“I think its really fun because we had something like this at my camp at Kennolyn, and nobody was very successful, so I’m not sure how this will go,” Noel Witcosky (12) said during the beginning of the construction period.

When students walked into the Edge, shopping bags of each class color were placed throughout the lunchroom. Inside every bag were items such as a gold star, feathers, balloons, yarn, stickers, and plastic bags provided as their materials for the competition.

“I think it’s a great way for the class to work together in general, and it really fosters teamwork […] We have two strategies: one is to slow the fall by using a parachute, and the other is to cradle the egg so it doesn’t break when it falls,” Ayush Midha (9) said.

At 12:15, the students filed out towards Nichols ready to test their creations. After a countdown from the crowd, parachutes were dropped simultaneously. While the senior parachute floated down the slowest, the freshman class proved victorious. The freshmen egg was the sole to remain whole after striking the ground.

“Since we’re studying physics already, we tried to employ the concepts that we learned…I heard that freshman classes normally don’t do as well as us so then me having helped our freshmen class get another award feels great,” Matthew Huang (9) said.
With freshmen in first place, the juniors placed second, followed by the sophomores in third place and seniors in fourth place.