{"id":9932,"date":"2011-12-19T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:02:34","slug":"gk-12-egg-drops-excite-tech-h-s-freshmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/12\/gk-12-egg-drops-excite-tech-h-s-freshmen\/","title":{"rendered":"GK-12 Egg Drops Excite Tech H.S. Freshmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/EggDrop_VISIX.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9933 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/EggDrop_VISIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"223\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 297px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 297\/223;\" \/><\/a>Freshmen in\u00a0the Cheney Technical High School CADD shop used common household items to design and build devices that would protect uncooked eggs from breaking during drops from\u00a0varying heights.\u00a0Led by UConn NSF GK-12 Fellow Neil Spinner, students were introduced to concepts of science and engineering in a fun and engaging way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshmen in\u00a0the Cheney Technical High School CADD shop used common household items to design and build devices that would protect uncooked eggs from breaking during drops from\u00a0varying heights.\u00a0Led by UConn NSF GK-12 Fellow Neil Spinner, students were introduced to concepts of science and engineering in a fun and engaging way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[46],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 13:24:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224942,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/224942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}