First day Planning:

In our critical thinking class, my group mates and I have to ship an egg through mail via
USPS. Our main goal and objective is to mail the egg to our school while making sure the egg is
in tact. The departure location of the egg will be from the US Post Office on 2140 N Hollywood
Way, Burbank CA 91505 and its arrival location is 13330 Vaughn St, San Fernando 91340. On
the 23rd of April, we will start the construction of our prototype.
We got this Idea of wrapping our egg from Backyardchickens.com.
Backyardchickens.com is an organization that ship farm eggs to people as a line of work.
Instead of using bubble wraps were going to use cotton like the organizations does. We will
wrap the soft cotton around the egg. Instead of using the scraps of paper were using foam peanut.
Were using duct tape to put our cotton on to wrap around the egg.

(Images from Backyardchickens.com)
For the supplies the supplies our group are going to use heavy duty duct tape. Heavy duty
duct tape is very inexpensive it costs 3.03 in walmart. We are also using cotton balls that you can
purchase in 99 cents store for $2.58.
The shipping info how much is the postage stamp): The Mailing company we are using
for our shipping is USPS. We believe that the weight the egg has on our shipping is fairly well
because it won't weigh a lot and the shipping cost will be much cheaper. For our shipping price
with USPS it will be $5.60 for ground shipping.
The outcome of this egg project is the egg to be shipped from place A to B safely. With
the materials that we are determine to use should not make the egg crack when it gets shipped to
Ms.Stearns house and back the school.

duct tape $3.03
8333 Van Nuys Blvd, Panorama City, CA
91402
cotton balls $2.58
8625 Woodman Ave Pacoima, CA 91331
shipping price and Postage Stamp $6.30
2140 N Hollywood Way, Burbank CA
91505
Total $11.21


Picture time line:
Our group is going to use cotton, balls bubble wrap and tape.

that how the egg is going to look when its finish and the bubble wrap is
securing the cotton and egg.


our group is going to send our egg by through USPS using
their small box

C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson 70-cent Stamps
the postage stamp


our group is going to wrap it with bubble wrap and this is how its
suppose to look when the egg is finish.







Prototype 2:

make an egg shape mold to put the egg in. So the egg Mold
will be a shield for the egg.
Air Clay $6.59 office depot 12900
Foothill Blvd, Sylmar, CA 91342
(818) 361-0941
shipping price
and postage stamp
$6.30
2140 N Hollywood Way, Burbank CA
91505
Total $12.19

In our critical thinking class, my group mates and I have to ship an egg through mail via
USPS. Our main goal and objective is to mail the egg to our school while making sure the egg is
in tact. The departure location of the egg will be from the US Post Office on 2140 N Hollywood
Way, Burbank CA 91505 and its arrival location is 13330 Vaughn St, San Fernando 91340. On
the 23rd of April, we will start the construction of our prototype.
The supply that we need for the second prototype is air dry clay. Air dry clay cost $6.59
in office depot that is located in sylmar on Foothill blvd.
The first noticeable piece of information is the amount of materials that Prototype 1 will
use. Prototype 1 uses two things in order to be assembled, meanwhile Prototype 2 only requires
one material. Air dry clay will be a struggle to break apart in order to check the inside of it. With
the cotton balls, it will be a very easy task to check on our egg.



clay is made out of metal oxides and organic matter. Clay minerals are mostly composed
of a phyllosilicate minerals. Clay material is strong and durable.

Photo timeline:
The material our group is using to protect our egg is Air Dry clay,
were using the dry air clay because its strong exterior.

this when its finish it will be warp our egg with the hard Air clay.

our group is going to send our egg by through USPS using
their small box

C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson 70-cent Stamps
the postage stamp


our group is going to wrap it with bubble wrap and this is how its
suppose to look when the egg is finish.

Final Draft:
In the end our Group choose the first prototype because its a dollar cheaper than the second
prototype. The second prototype is more risky and our group hundred percent not sure the clay
was going to crack. The first prototype is similar to a farmer ( Backyardchickens.com ) way of
sending eggs so that an add on why this plan of the first prototype helps.









Final Days of Egg reflection:
Our building process was successful. We got the duct tape and taped cotton balls to it.
We did many long strip they looked like long soft cloud and we gently wrapped them around the
egg. We made mutiples of the long stips until the egg was fullly covered . With all the secure
cotton balls and tape holding the cotton balls we can have faith that the egg wont crack.

Everything went as planned we had more than enough material than needed. The cotton
felt softer than we predicted and the cotton hold nicely onto the tape. There was enough tape to
place in the bottom of the box to hold the egg so that it wouldnt be able to move from its
location. As planned, when it came time to unboxing, the egg was firmly set in its post-mailing
position and was flawless when the egg was unveiled.

If we had to rebuild our prototype we would have included a separator because it would
have gave the egg more support and stability to stay in the middle like in the picture below. It
would have provided more protection and stability to the egg.

Our main concern was that the egg may move and break while its shipping from Mrs.
Stearn house to high school. We werent sure if the egg was going to break even with all the
duct tape and cotton balls we used. But in the end our group was relieved to find our egg in one
piece and has no cracks.
Ultimately, our egg came in great shape! Slime-free and no flaws whatsoever. Here is the
link to our unboxing of the mail package where our egg was placed inside:
http://youtu.be/JEfZNimbi68



Time Line:
Materials: Postal Medium size box, bag of cotton Balls and an egg






1. First we constructed a medium size box and then we put tape on the bottom.


2. Second, we grabbed a strap of tape and put cotton balls on top.



3. Third we repeat the same step as the second step, Then we put the egg in the middle of the of
the cotton

afterwards, we put the egg in the middle of the cotton.

4. Then we wrapped the egg gently with the long strips of cotton ball and tape all

around the egg.


5. Lastly we put the wrapped egg and put it on the tape that was on the bottom of the box then
filled the box with packing peanuts. Then we closed up our box and it was ready to be sent out.