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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Nov. 2,1974
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throwing these objects out
the door. Wu this a case o(
teacher spite against the
school and students? Was it a
mad, mad way of getting
even? Is this what happens
to principals on sabbatical?
What, in any event, were
those objects Regester
pitched out the door?
Well, put your fears at
rest. This was an educational
project, and the objects
the
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coming from the plane were
Lancaster County eggs. Not
that you’d recognize them as
eggs, but they were in fact,
eggs. And the whole egg
cerslze (sorry about that)
was designed to see how well
sixth, seventh and eighth
graders could package eggs.
The ultimate test of the
packaging efforts was on
Friday afternoon, when the
wrapped, bundled,
parachuted, propellered,
sprung and winged packages
were pitched out of a plane
flying at 1000 feet.
Jacques Gibble, a PhD
candidate and a teacher at
the school for five years, was
one of the teachers who
thought of trying Project
Egg Drop. Gibble said he
saw a story about a similar
project conducted by a
school in Michigan some five
years ago. And, it seemed to
Gibble like a good, creative
way to learn. The Michigan
school children experienced
a 90 percent rate of success
with their egg packages •
only one out of 10 of the fresh,
uncooked eggs broke.
School budgets don’t
normally allow for eggs that
are to be scrambled by
dropping them on the lawn,
so Gibble contacted Perm
field Corp., who agreed to
furnish the eggs to go into the
packages. Pennfield is also
donating 15 Egg McMuffin
breakfasts at McDonald’s
for the contest winners.
Each container bolds one
egg. Some 164 pupils, about
20 percent of the school’s
enrollment, submitted en-
tires for the contest. We had
a chance to look at the
packages on Wednesday
afternoon, when they were
judged on the basis of their
suitability for various
categories. For each grade
level, the Judges picked first
place winners in lightest,
heaviest, smallest, most
unusual material, and most
unusual design categories.
To claim his Egg McMuffin
prize, the winner’s egg must
survive the fall.
Only two ground rules
guided the students in the
design and construction of
their packages. The con*
tadne r had to fit through an
opening 6-inches square, and
all parts of the container had
to be connected. There was
almost no direction from the
faculty, Gibble explained,
because they didn’t want the
packages to end up looking
too similar.
Hie students used a lot ol
plastic foam and rubber
bands, but they did come up
with a bewildering array of
designs. Some vaguely
resembled rockets, others
were primarily protective
boxes with parachutes. One
student submitted a
whimsical entry consisting
of a spring mounted on a
piece of board topped by an
egg-shaped container filled
with a soft material
protecting the egg inside.
None of the Judges ex
pected this particular entry
to come through Operation
Egg Drop unscrambled. But
they all agreed that it was
good for a few yolks.
Jacques Glbble, the Marticville displays one of the 164 imaginatively-
Middle School teacher largely packaged hen fruits submitted by the
responsible for Operation Egg Drop, school pupils.
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