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STEM Explorers - Egg Drop Engineering Challenge

Presented by Science Connections

2025-11-01 15:30:00 2025-11-01 16:30:00 America/New_York STEM Explorers - Egg Drop Engineering Challenge Egg Drop Engineering Challenge with Science Connections! Can you protect your important cargo? Space is limited, registration required. Ages 6-12. Quince Orchard Library -

Saturday, November 01
3:30pm - 4:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-01 15:30:00 2025-11-01 16:30:00 America/New_York STEM Explorers - Egg Drop Engineering Challenge Egg Drop Engineering Challenge with Science Connections! Can you protect your important cargo? Space is limited, registration required. Ages 6-12. Quince Orchard Library -

Egg Drop Engineering Challenge with Science Connections! Can you protect your important cargo? Space is limited, registration required. Ages 6-12.

Calling all future NASA engineers! Join Science Connections to test out your design and construction skills. Learn how NASA engineers landed the most recent rover, Perseverance, on Mars in February 2021. Apply some of the same techniques they used to plan, build, and test out your very own creation. Can you complete the challenge: to protect your raw egg cargo from a 10 foot drop!! 

Registration required.  Register online or call 240-773-9550 beginning 3 weeks before the event.  For children ages 6 - 12.  Generously sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, MD, Inc.

Questions about this program? Contact the Quince Orchard branch at 240-777-0200

Find more fun programs and info about the MD STEM Festival:https://marylandstemfestival.org/events/month/2025-11/ 

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.

 

mh 1.1 01/03/2023

AGE GROUP: | Elementary School |

EVENT TYPE: | STEM |

TAGS: | STEM | MD Stem Festival | Indoor Program | Friends of the Library |

Quince Orchard Library

Phone: 240-777-0200

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