Team X Entry 1

Our task for the Team X project was to design a contraption that can hold a egg and for it not to crack.This was a mini simulation of how what the mars landing was going to be like such examples  are the egg could be a human and you don’t want it to crack,or how we have a target something like a place to land.The assigned group that I participated in was I.C.A short for Mini Ian,Cyrus and Ahmed.Our job was to create our contraption within 2 weeks.That meant that we needed to imagine our idea the first class,so we decided on a cardboard box that held the egg in and a parachute on top.The next class we got together to go over our ideas.This ended to be an argument but we compromised our plans.We decided to have 4 thick cardboard boxes that we could cut in half to have our sides,having 2 strings connecting it to the parachute.We also added more to our plan,me pitching an idea about having a shock absorber on each side.I also got a idea of wrapping the egg with pipe cleaners and attaching 2 on 2 sides.After we talked about all of these idea’s we wondered if adding some styrofoam inside would do any good.One of the idea’s which was pitched around was if we needed another box inside.Which would be great but with 15 millon left after adding up for our supplies we don’t know for now if it’s worth it.The altimate goal being if we need more reinforcement with the thick cardboard and if more shock obsorbers would be needed.So next class we would want to construct our idea and test it out to take data and to find flaws in our plan to fix.