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Saltwater Fish wins egg glide competition
Engineers Week
Stephanie Takach
Issue date: 2/20/09 Section: News
Drexel University's Engineering Week kicked off with the 15th annual Egg Glide competition in the Great Court of the Main Building.
This year 32 teams participated and the greatest height for the egg glide, 34 feet, was reached.
"The dean wanted it to be more challenging for the engineering students," Elizabeth Brachelli, spokeswoman for the College of Engineering, said.
She said some of the designs were incredibly varied, although a lot of the contraptions included parachutes.
The first place team, Saltwater Fish, included Barry Kline and Bryant Nelson, both pre-junior mechanical engineering and mechanics majors.
Kline said he felt very good about his device from the beginning. The device was a Styrofoam block with an egg cutout in the middle without a parachute.
Kline said he had a blast at the competition but did not think it was run scientifically because the timing was done on cell phones.
One of the things that differed this year was that the glide was moved back to Main Building, according to Brachelli. Students requested to move the event back to the Great Court after it was in Bossone last year.
Scoring for the event was judged by the mass of the contraption in grams, the location where the contraption landed for both rounds, the time between the release, the contact with the target and the condition of the egg after each round.
This year 32 teams participated and the greatest height for the egg glide, 34 feet, was reached.
"The dean wanted it to be more challenging for the engineering students," Elizabeth Brachelli, spokeswoman for the College of Engineering, said.
She said some of the designs were incredibly varied, although a lot of the contraptions included parachutes.
The first place team, Saltwater Fish, included Barry Kline and Bryant Nelson, both pre-junior mechanical engineering and mechanics majors.
Kline said he felt very good about his device from the beginning. The device was a Styrofoam block with an egg cutout in the middle without a parachute.
Kline said he had a blast at the competition but did not think it was run scientifically because the timing was done on cell phones.
One of the things that differed this year was that the glide was moved back to Main Building, according to Brachelli. Students requested to move the event back to the Great Court after it was in Bossone last year.
Scoring for the event was judged by the mass of the contraption in grams, the location where the contraption landed for both rounds, the time between the release, the contact with the target and the condition of the egg after each round.
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