Egg-the delicate goal

From the beginning, we all knew the goal was to keep the egg from breaking when dropped in order to attain the priceless incentive; 10 points on our exam dangled in front of our analytical minds. We designated 3 teammates to write out our plan while we all continuously generated seemingly good ideas.  Ideas were hatched and ideas were disqualified. We knew in the first minutes Step 1 was completed. Constantly looking at the stopwatch, time was of essence. In these 25 minutes, thinking outside the "cradle" was necessary. We debated if extending the egg from tape and straws would be beneficial because 8 straws was a scarce commodity. By the end of our 25 minute brainstorm period we recognized one undeniable fact, "physics is inevitable."

 We needed to have less distance from the floor to the egg and knowing that 50% of the egg must be shown we knew some sort of coverage was needed for cushion. This became our strengths of Step 2. We agreed by the end of 25 minutes that we needed a plan B just in case the "cradle" device didn't work. Our alternative was to make a free standing egg holding contraption. After 25 minutes of deliberation step 4 was also completed. We implemented the plan but as for that frightfully hectic day no evaluation was derived therefore step 5 was not able to be finished. All in all, step 3 seemed to barely be reached.

My height finally became a virtue; being the shortest teammate to drop the egg, we became one of only 2 teams to not break our delicate goal.  

Our plan was enforced, our performance was efficient, our goals and strategy was a victory.