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This spring, Landmark's Elementary•Middle School students really put all their eggs in one basket—a cleverly engineered one, that is—as they explored the laws of physics and mechanics in their science classes, led by department head Sophie Wilson. Using what they were learning, students were egg-cited to take on the challenge of designing a container to keep a farm-fresh egg from cracking under pressure as it was dropped from increasing heights.

Teachers and administrators scrambled to join the fun, but the real stars of the day were the EMS students, several of whom egg-celled in the finals by dropping their protected eggs from three stories—most without so much as a crack! Materials for these egg-cellent contraptions included popsicle sticks, rubber bands, cotton balls, pipe cleaners, and other household items. It was a shell of a good time and a hands-on lesson in creativity, perseverance, and STEM skills.