It’s that time of the year! Don’t get too eggcited, but last week, the physics classes had their yearly egg drop from the third floor. Some would say it went eggcelently, while others eggspected more.

“[Our egg] survived both the third and fourth floor,” says Aiden Niemiec (‘26). “I don’t know how it survived the fourth floor. The cup that it was in split open on multiple sides, but it didn’t fall out, which is good. And it survived. The egg survived!”

Students watched from the commons, trying not to crack up, as their peers dropped eggs sunny-side up on the floor. 

“[We are] seeing if we can not have scrambled eggs,” says Lakesha Barton, Physics teacher. “I’ve seen a lot of great projects over the years, things that float, things that twirl and have propellers and things that glide. So it’s super fun. I would say roughly 20% to 40% survive for each class.”

This egg drop is tradition in Skyline’s physics classes as it allows students to put what they have learned into practice and come out of their shells a bit.

“I think it’s good to do an actual project,” says Clara Guan (‘28). “It helps us learn the material better.” In addition to dropping the eggs, students had to craft their device and an accompanying slideshow. 

“We had an hour or so to plan and construct a capsule for our device,” says Niemiec. “It couldn’t have a parachute, which made it a lot more interesting. [Our device] was kind of an amalgamation of triangles in a circular-ish shape… It was essentially duct taped together because the hot glue wasn’t holding it together when I dropped it.”

Note: The author is in Ms. Barton’s first hour physics class and participated in the egg drop.