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Hancock Elementerary Students Win GNPAL Egg Drop Contest
Sisters at Hancock Elementary designed a container that preserved a raw egg from a 15-foot drop.
The Greater Norristown Police Athletic League (GNPAL) held its second-annual egg drop contest at its Family Science Night, March 15.
Three contestants from the Norristown Area School district participated in the egg drop, which required them to construct a container that would withstand a 15-foot drop while preserving a raw egg.
The egg drop took place off the balcony in the GNPAL gymnasium and was facilitated by GNPAL executive director Brett Wells.
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The VanDevere sisters Bethany, 9, and Diane, 7, both students at Hancock Elementary School, submitted a large rubber box containing the raw egg inside a foam-lined package.
According to the sisters' father, Lance VanDevere, when Diane asked her family to participate in the Family Science Night's Egg Drop contest, he was all for it.
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"We tried it a few times," Lance VanDevere said with a smile.
Look for full coverage of the seventh-annual GNPAL Family Science Night on Norristown Patch soon.
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