Throw a boiled egg as far as possible without cracking it. ...The key to victory is flexible thinking. 〜〜Elementary School Egg Throwing Contest
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An invention club in Mishima City, Shizuoka Prefecture, which offers hands-on classes to elementary school students to teach them the joy of craftsmanship, held a unique boiled egg throwing contest. The deciding factor was ideas born from flexible thinking.
On August 23rd, elementary school students gathered at a venue in Mishima City.
28 students from 4th to 6th grade participated in the contest. It was called the "Egg Throwing Contest!"
There were four main rules:
- Throw a boiled egg as far as possible using any throwing technique.
- If the boiled egg breaks, there is no record.
- Using a single sheet of newspaper, glue, staples, etc., participants come up with ways to keep an egg from breaking.
- Participants compete to see who can throw the farthest a boiled egg can land on the floor.
In this contest, participants create a protective container (buffer) for an egg using a single sheet of newspaper, and then compete to see who can throw it the furthest without breaking it.
The key to victory is flexibility and ingenuity in figuring out what kind of buffer to make to keep the egg from breaking with limited tools, and how to throw it.
Instructor:
The idea isn't bad. However, throwing it wrapped up like this is difficult. How you throw it is important.
The organizer, the Mishima Boys and Girls Invention Club, holds hands-on classes twice a month, and this contest was a special one held once a year. The instructors are people who used to work for manufacturers in eastern Fukushima, and they teach children the joy of making things.
Instructor:
We want the children to learn by being taught something by someone outside of school. This time, I want you to learn about creativity and challenges by solving the given problem.
◆Learning from Failure
Ms.Lino came up with the idea of "Accordion Strategy," which involves repeatedly folding the newspaper used to wrap eggs. This idea aims to increase its strength and cushioning.
How do we make it stronger? Accordion.
Ms.Lino:
I'll double it. But it seems pretty weak. I want to strengthen the non-accidental sides. Since newspaper is thin, I thought it would be difficult to make it stronger.
After completing the first prototype and throwing it...it flew far enough, but the sound it made when it hit the ground made me realize how powerful the impact was.
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Ms.Lino learned that things don't always go as planned, so he made multiple prototypes and repeated trial and error in preparation for the real thing.
Mother, Emi:
Sometimes doing things exactly as in the textbook doesn't work, so I encourage my children to try different things, tinker with things, fail, and then think about what to do next.
Lino:
We'll try our best and try new things! Our goal is to win!
◆Let's compete with unique ideas!
On the day of the competition, each team will use the ideas they brought to make their own cushioning material.
One team used shredded newspaper as a cushion, while another wrapped eggs in accordion-shaped newspaper like the straw used to wrap natto.
There were also a variety of ideas, such as leaving the eggs exposed and making a three-dimensional boomerang out of a long, thin stick.
Rino combined a teammate's idea of making a box out of newspaper with her own idea of using accordion-shaped cushioning.
The winning team recorded a height of 11.53 meters. The idea was to stuff small rolled-up pieces of newspaper into the gaps between the newspaper wrapping the egg, and miraculously, the egg didn't crack even once.
Winning participant:
If you use newspaper like a spring, the egg won't crack at all.
Winning participant:
It was fun, and I learned how to make an egg not crack.
Lino narrowly missed out on winning, but he managed to keep his egg intact one of his two throws, setting a record of 5m 46cm.
Instructor:
I think each team made something different, their method of making it, and their philosophy were all different. Everyone really tried their best, considering it was their first time.
This contest taught the children the importance of innovation through repeated failure and success.
Perhaps it gave the children the motivation to use their ideas to try new things.
By the way, the children apparently took the boiled eggs used in the contest home to eat.
https://www.sut-tv.com/news/indiv/17505/
5: Ψ: 2022/08/23(Tue) 12:21:24.03 ID:oYdGZFL2.net
"Didn't your parents tell you not to play with your food?"
6: Ψ: 2022/08/23(Tue) 12:34:43.42 ID:9v0Ez8in.net
There must be many poor children who would rather eat it than throw it.
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