Egg Drop Lander Exercise & The power of iterations

Mar '23 (edited) in Workshops & Exercises 🍔

Hi all,

As asked today during our meetup here is a link to the egg drop exercise. It's from Nasa and good enough to get started https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/556927main_Adv-RS_Egg_Drop.pdf

@Jonathan Courtney

if you have a more detailed resource please share it :)

The variant I recommended today was to divide participants in two types of teams:

The "More time, less tries" team: this team has 1 to 1.5 hours but only 2 eggs, and they need to have 1 egg for the final demo when the time ends, so in practice they have one try-out.
The "less time, more tries" team: this team has 30 to 45 minutes but has unlimited eggs (well nothing is unlimited but you get what I mean ahah)

When you drop the eggs in the final comparison 99% of the time the "less time, more tries" teams win! The exercise stimulates collaboration, prototyping and experimentation, demonstrating that more experiments and iterations beat more time and analysis.

Joao

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