Avon Grove Middle School students had their chance to figure out if they could protect an egg from a fifty foot fall with assistance of the West Grove Fire Company this week.

The annual Egg Drop was held on Wednesday. Four large groups of students had a similar project assignment: build a "contraption" designed to protect an egg from a drop from fifty (50) feet up. A wide arrange of approaches were taken by the students, from custom-built canisters, to foam padding, to parachute-assisted containers, to bubble foam-wrapped eggs. Some approaches worked, many did not.

The crew from the WGFC set up Ladder 22, and hauled up the projects in large bags. Each container was dropped to the parking lot below, helped or "hurt" by a strong wind that was blowing that morning. Many student projects gently carried the eggs down, with no damage. Many specially-built contraptions fell apart upon smashing into the parking lot -- spewing parts and egg everywhere.

In the end, the students learned valuable lessons about physics -- and, yes, eggs can survive a 50' fall.