Egg-Drop Contest: Rules and Instructions

These rules are based on rules for Egg-Drop Contest 2000 prepared by IEEE Student Branch Eindhoven.

In the following instructions for the Egg-Drop contest a participant can also be interpreted as a team until otherwise stated.

• The aim of the contest is to drop an egg from a certain height (about 4m) using a cage, shelter, parachute or some similar kind of construction to protect the egg from breaking it. The egg should land as close as possible to the target at the floor as quickly as possible. The construction should be as light as possible.
• Registration, as a team, for the contest is possible up to a number of 5 persons.
• The egg with a hallmark will be provided by the IEEE Student Branch Maribor.
• All the constructions should have a free entry to place, in or on the construction, and to remove the egg out or of the construction.
• It is not allowed to prepare (or using) constructions with corrosive chemicals, explosives, material with high viscosity (e.g. pudding or gelatin) and the voltage rating of any electrical component may not exceed 25 V under all circumstances.
• The organization of the Egg-Drop contest has the right to cancel an attempt of a participant or to reject a construction if it has the meaning that the safety of people either their properties are in danger.
• It is not allowed to follow the egg physically.
• Every participant has only one attempt to drop an egg.
• The Egg-Drop jury has the exclusive right to remove the egg after the fall. The participants may have no interaction (mechanically or electrically) with the object until the jury defined the score of the attempt.
• The egg is damaged if it is visible that it looses some of it's contents.
• The construction with the egg must be dropped with stretched arms from the platform.
• The measured fall time, is the average fall time registered by several independent timekeepers; this time will be taken into account to determine the final score.
• The weight of the construction counts also for the final score and may not exceed weight of 1.5 kg iron in same conditions.
• The maximum measurements of the construction are determined as can be seen in the pictures hereunder.
  

Determination of the score:

	m	=	Weight construction in grams
	t	=	Average falltime in seconds
	r	=	Distance from the construction to the centre of the target
	c	=	A constant value, chosen after the contest that will be applied to all scores to bring them to a lower scale