Civil Engineering Technology Egg Drop competition covered in the Ottawa Citizen
Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
What happens when you drop an egg from the second floor of the ACCE building? Third-year students in the Civil Engineering Technology program participating in the March 23rd “Egg Drop Competition” found out that it takes a lot of skill, design and sometimes a bit of luck to protect the egg from arriving at its destination scrambled.
This fun contest challenged students and spectators to use their imagination and engineering skills. Contestants were asked to design a mechanism that will protect a raw egg from being broken when dropped from the second floor of the ACCE building onto the main floor of the atrium. Please read the following article written in the March 24, 2015 edition of the Ottawa Citizen about how the students were able to apply what they learned in their program to this egg-citing competition.
What: Egg Drop Contest
When:Monday, March 23
Where: Algonquin College ACCE building, Atrium
Who: Third-year Civil Engineering Technology students