Community Spring Fling Today In Walnut Hill

April 5, 2009

Walnut Hill Baptist Church will hold their annual Spring Fling with fun events like an egg drop and an Easter egg hunt.

The Easter egg hunt will be for children toddler age through fifth grade.There will be relay races, food and a church wide softball game. The public is invited to attend, and to bring their own lawn chairs, blankets, ball gloves and Easter baskets for the little ones.

The event will be held at the Ruritan Club on Highway 97 beginning at 2:00 today. It is free and open to the public.

Students in the third to twelfth grade can participate in an Egg Drop. The guidelines for the egg drop are below.

Egg Drop

The goal of this challenge is to have a raw chicken egg fall approximately eight feet or more onto a hard surface and survive the impact uncracked. You must design a container that will protect your egg!

Guidelines for designing containers:
1) The design can not involve liquids, helium, or any other lighter-than-air gasses.
2) The design can not involve glass in any way! (or any other shattering type of material….ceramics, baked clay, etc.)
3) The egg “container” can not exceed one foot in length or width (winged designs need to fall within this dimension).
4) You must be able to place the egg in the container just prior to the drop. (If you need to tape your container closed after placing the egg inside, make sure you supply the tape or material needed to close your container before and after each drop made…we may have to increase the height and drop more than once.)
5) Use of parachutes is allowed, but the chute must deploy itself after the container is dropped. (Dropping with an open parachute will almost certainly result in successful landing. Using other methods within the guidelines will make for a more interesting challenge.)

Eggs will be provided at the time of the drop!

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under Archive