{"id":2390,"date":"2018-01-31T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/malaysiacampus\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2018-01-31T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:03:48","slug":"the-great-egg-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/malaysiacampus\/2018\/01\/31\/the-great-egg-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Egg Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

January…… the month filled with exams, assignments and inherently, STRESSSSSS (definitely not something we want to start off the year). In light of that,\u00a0IET USMC On Campus, in collaboration with IMechE USMC, organized The Great Egg Challenge in hopes to help everyone loosen up a bit and have fun (even if it’s just for a brief moment T.T ).<\/p>\n

I myself was one of the organizers, but even so, I managed to have lots of fun organizing and hosting the event! The event, as the name implies, involves passing multiple challenges involving eggs. There were three challenges in total –\u00a0“The Egg Drop”, “The Egg Parachute”, and “The Egg Slide”, with each challenge being more daunting than the last.<\/p>\n

In each of these challenges, the participants had to apply their engineering knowledge to ensure that their eggs successfully pass the challenges unharmed. Every group was given 40 minutes and the same set of materials to customize their eggs (1 egg per challenge). Though it may sound easy at first, but it involves a lot more than just wrapping the eggs in paper to form a cushion, tying a plastic bag to the egg to form a parachute or just letting the egg go down a slide. The participants had to make use of the limited amount of materials given to them for all three challenges and also take the weight and size of their customized egg into account, especially for the egg slide.<\/p>\n