Egg Drop Challenge!

A MD STEM Festival Event

Design and build a contraption to protect an egg dropped from above.

Engineers develop and test products that protect us all the time. Think about airbags in your car or a seat belt. Test out your design, construction, and engineering skills by you create a contraption to protect a raw egg from breaking when falling from a height. Be creative, your imagination is the limit! Use a variety of repurposed materials like egg cartons, paper tubes, play dough, tape, felt, popsicles sticks, and more to build your contraption and see if your egg can survive the fall!

For grades 1-6.

The Maryland STEM Festival is a month-long celebration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics designed to advance STEM and STEAM education for children and teens that takes place every fall. 

Questions about this program? Contact the Potomac branch at 240-777-0690.

Library Program Attendance (both virtual and in the branch) is limited to participants within the suggested age range of the program. Children attending an MCPL program under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Adults attending a program intended for children must have an accompanying child.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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