Architecture students compete in egg-citing competition

May 12, 2021

Ms. Mel Gaskins, recent recipient of the Scholastic Educators Art Award, and her Architecture students tested the design of their egg drop contraptions during 2021 Architecture Egg Drop competition. Most eggs made it safely from the window of the convent to the blacktop three stories down. Egg-ceptional job by these winners:

Shortest in Flight and Lived: Gabe Fellerhoff
Longest in Flight and Lived: Will Beatty
Bauhaus Award-Best Design & Flight: Marian Favro

McNicholas students test their egg drop contraptions in architecture class.

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