Do you even know what an EGG DROP is?
Our own Jonathan Hampton, a Raytheon employee, recently worked with 25 middle school students from Sudbury, Framingham, and Worcester to design, build, and test a capsule that would hopefully protect and egg that was tossed and also dropped from a height of 25 feet.
The event was held as an extension of National Engineers Week which is in February. The article reports that 70% of middle school students would like to get jobs in engineering, however only 38% of them actually end up doing it. Hopefully with similar co-operation among companies, school systems, and local organizations, additional efforts like this can favorably change these statistics.
Please click this link to view the MetroWest Daily News video of the event. [4]