Describe your prototype design. Our design looks like a potato. Our design is a Dixie cup that has cushion, and an egg on the inside, and has cushion on the outside. The cushion is tissues.  And it has a balloon on the top hanging on a string that’s connected to the “potato.”

How does your prototype protect the egg? Our prototype protects the egg because it has cushion on the inside, and on the outside.

Describe your design process, in detail. At the beginning we came up with a bunch of ideas, and then we chose which one to build. Then we ended up building our design, though we built it pretty fast. So then out teacher told us to challenge ourselves. So we tried to make it smaller. It still worked so then we made it smaller 2 more times and it kept working, so now we are starting a new idea.

What worked well in your design? We made a bunch of prototypes, and it worked before we did the official drop. I think we might have squished the prototype too many times by accident, and before I opened the prototype, I tossed it and the parts over and away from where most of them land, and right before it hit the ground it it hit a side of the wall.

What was challenging throughout this process? What would you do differently? Next time, what I would do differently is to try harder to think before I do, for when I tossed it away from where my classmates prototypes land, because that might have been the 1 of the reasons that our prototype broke. What I think was challenging was when we were having to decide which idea to choose. What was also challenging was when I had to stop building for the day. What I think was also challenging was when we had to stop building our 2nd idea for good, because it was also the day of the challenge.

Here’s a picture of our potato: