Here I am 3 months behind on my blog, yet again. Sorry guys. Life has been CRAZY. But I am sitting in a completely empty house (as in sleeping on the floor) while our household goods are on a boat on their way to Germany. We officially move in 2 weeks so I finally have a moment to myself to update my blog. Hopefully there will be a lot of reading material for you over the next week or so. Enjoy!
My boys love cub scouts. Bladen has been a Bear Scout all year & Craiger just started as a Wolf Scout in February. Our scout troop here has been fabulous for them.
In April the scout troops did an egg drop contest. This was a first for both my boys. It was VERY exciting. We did a lot of research on what would work & the boys insisted on asking a dear friend (a scientist) of ours from Mountain View. Mark Rober is a youtube star for creating fun science videos for kids (& adults love them too). He did a whole video just on the physics of egg drop contests. My boys watched that & thanks to Mark, they were able to build 2 very different, but very effective contraptions for their eggs.
Here is a link to Mark's video. (Watch all his videos, they're SO fun)
Both boys were a huge success at the contest. Bladen's contraption came in 2nd place & Craiger's came in 3rd. We were very proud of them.
Craiger put his egg inside a soccer ball filled with polyester filling. . . the same filling used in stuffed animals. It worked VERY well.
Bladen opted for the straw triangle contraption & it was surprisingly perfect for this sort of thing. That egg DID NOT want to break. I was amazed at how well it held up.
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