2008 Woodie Awards
YUPEC Hosts Second Event
Wanton Physics Club Hosts Egg Drop Competition
Gil Landau
Issue date: 4/18/05 Section: News
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On Sunday, April 10, the Yeshiva University Physics and Engineering Club (YUPEC) hosted their annual egg drop competition, which challenged students to design a contraption smaller than a foot cubed that would keep an egg intact throughout its five-story descent, and most importantly, through its subsequent collision with the ground. Students arrived with strange looking contraptions, all within the allowed cubed foot. While nine students entered, only two of the designs survived the fall.
One student had a rocket, designed to fall straight and cushion the impact, but upon inspection following the fall, the egg had a small fracture. A different design had a wire cage surrounding the egg, but even a soft landing did not prevent the egg from staining the floor yellow. The two winning designs were fairly simple boxes. One winner, Perry Fox, an engineering and physics major, designed his box, named Sunny Side Up, with packing nuts, wrapped his egg in bubble wrap. The other winner, Jonathan Gritz, a non-physics Sy Syms School of Business student, had an etrog box suspended by wires within a larger box that was weighted by a monkey wrench to fall on the designed side.
As a tie breaker, both eggs were dropped from the seventh floor of Rubin Hall. Both eggs survived the fall and each winner is expected to receive 50 dollars. When YUPEC's president, Aryeh Gilchensky, was asked why they didn't drop the eggs from Belfer Hall, he explained that they did not have time to get permission; plus from such a large height there was a possibility that the egg containers would fall into the street.
The Egg Drop Competition was YUPEC's second event this year, following their acclaimed cardboard canoe race.
According to Gilchensky, YUPEC, a growing club, tries to give the students of Yeshiva "fun and creative" events that they can fit into their busy schedules. YUPEC plans on having another canoe race during reading week later this semester.
One student had a rocket, designed to fall straight and cushion the impact, but upon inspection following the fall, the egg had a small fracture. A different design had a wire cage surrounding the egg, but even a soft landing did not prevent the egg from staining the floor yellow. The two winning designs were fairly simple boxes. One winner, Perry Fox, an engineering and physics major, designed his box, named Sunny Side Up, with packing nuts, wrapped his egg in bubble wrap. The other winner, Jonathan Gritz, a non-physics Sy Syms School of Business student, had an etrog box suspended by wires within a larger box that was weighted by a monkey wrench to fall on the designed side.
As a tie breaker, both eggs were dropped from the seventh floor of Rubin Hall. Both eggs survived the fall and each winner is expected to receive 50 dollars. When YUPEC's president, Aryeh Gilchensky, was asked why they didn't drop the eggs from Belfer Hall, he explained that they did not have time to get permission; plus from such a large height there was a possibility that the egg containers would fall into the street.
The Egg Drop Competition was YUPEC's second event this year, following their acclaimed cardboard canoe race.
According to Gilchensky, YUPEC, a growing club, tries to give the students of Yeshiva "fun and creative" events that they can fit into their busy schedules. YUPEC plans on having another canoe race during reading week later this semester.