For many students in high school, you are asked to perform the popular egg drop at least once, maybe more. My gaol is to have the greatest egg drop at my school.

The limitations:
1. A 6 inch, all around, in diameter container
2. No metal and no wood
3. The egg must be taken in and out of the container before and after the drop (that means you can't tape the thing inside)
4. A parachute is allowed, but it can only be 6 inches in diameter when fully extended

I was thinking to put my egg in some tupaware and fill the tupaware in the foam that you find in car windows

I probally spelled tupaware wrong

just fuckin put it in tupperware full of petroleum jelly or jello...hahha

Jello sounds like a winner.

When I did this in Jr. High or High School, I just wrapped about 10 sheets of construction paper around it. we dropped it from 8 feet, so the ones that were designed to parachute didn't really have time to work, so mine ended up winning
-_-

For my project, I wasn't allowed to use balloons. I bent the rules a little bit and inflated some zip-lock bags (the larger ones, not the sandwich size) and used elastics to hold them around the egg. I duct taped them shut so that they wouldn't burst open along the sealed opening. I put that mass of bags into a plastic grocery bag and tied it shut. Just don't put enough air into it that it will burst along any of the other seams and it should survive the fall.

maybe think bubble wrap

When I had to do this one, I bet my teacher $5 (really cool guy) that I could do it with a contraption that defied all logical thinking. I used two identical bowls, taped together to form a pretty even sphere and filled them with concrete (without the gravel) then placed the egg in the center and let it start to set up. When it was pretty firm I split it into two halves (the sphere that is) and put an egg in each half so I ended up with a mold of the egg that was about as snug as could be without squeezing the egg. I made a buffer with playdoh and Then held the thing closed with a few of those massively thick rubber bands and a few rounds of tape. We had to drop ours from 15 feet and mine survived and won most creative. The egg is so snug in the playdoh and concrete, that the forces of the impact pass right through it, like those desk toys where you pull one ball back and let it go, and only the farthest away ball moves. As long as the concrete survives the fall the hole thing works fine.

RDP

If you had the egg out of the container and brought expanding foam to school how long could you wait to drop it after your turn came up? Because if you suspend an egg in a Tupperware container then fill it with the hardest expanding foam you can find you should be able to drop it from just about any height, as long as the foam stays intact the egg will remain undamaged. Any movement of the egg at all will cause it to break on impact though. If you are careful, like an archaeological dig when you take it out it won't break. (untested, I used that green flower arrangement foam for mine, it crushes to absorb the impact and doesn't rebound)

I love the comparison

what i did was get hollow pyramid made of cardboard, meaning no sides, just edges, and ducttape the sticky sides together, and create a little hold for the egg in the MIDDLE of the pyramid, so that the egg itself takes 0% of the impact.
a side view like this ( O=egg)
............/\
.........../...\
........../.O..\
........./____\ ...............<crude)

i used the "crumple zone" technique used in cars nowadays, we had some straws and paper and tape of course, so i bent the straws and made a rough 6-way circle around the egg with the bent straws.

mine took the longest time to build though heh.