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egg drop project.secret is the straws!?

okay so I have a limit to what I can use, the materials listed below, no more, no lessMy teacher said that the secret is the staws but I'm not exactly sure what he means? Rules of the Challenge: The egg and your safety device will be dropped from a height of 5 meters.Your safety device should not contain a parachuteAll of the materials you use to make the safety device must fit into the brown lunch bag.Your safety device does not need to survive the impact-only the eggYou do not need to use all of the materials (although you may use the materials in any way that you will including tearing/breaking)Materials Provided : 1 brown paper lunch bag3 Ziploc plastic bags (sandwich size)1 piece of newspaper2 pieces of paper towel1 meter of masking tape1 30cm piece of string5 cotton balls1 styrofoam cup1 sheet of aluminum foil (30 cm)Please HelpI already tried out my ideas and they didn't work!

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my best advice is to think of 'crush zones' similar to that of a modern caranother idea is to make sure that the impact happens all in one spotwhat i would do is take the cup.crumple up the zip lock bags and put them in the bottom of the cup, then put on top of that the paper towel, then on top of that the cotton balls and then make a spot for the egg to go on top of those itemsmake sure that the cup is bottom heavy and put some trailers on top of them cup to make sure the bottom of the cup hits the groundgood luck!

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