Students were tasked with creating a protective enclosure for a raw egg that could sustain a 20-foot drop from Hebron Academy’s storied clock tower atop Sturtevant Hall. Designs incorporated different methods of cushioning, including packing peanuts, a foam football and a woman’s nylon suspended inside a cardboard box. The casings could not exceed more than one cubic foot.

The winning design was a hollowed out foam football attached to a homemade, self-releasing parachute. The event “reinforced” the delicate nature of the human brain and the importance of protecting it, as evidenced by pulverized eggs.