'It’s a fun tradition': MSOE hosts annual egg drop competition 🥚

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- For a school tradition dating back nearly 30 years, students at the Milwaukee School of Engineering put their production skills to the test.

Students at MSOE came into the lobby, collected brown lunch bags, and picked up a numbered egg, all for the chance to win $500.

"It’s a fun tradition that we have going on here, and it’s a nice break, especially here during midterms, to just relax and just do something but still keep your mind active," said Karis Johnson, a freshman at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

For 30 minutes, the students raced against the clock to build the perfect contraption to protect an egg from a three-story drop.

The students worked in teams or by themselves.

They were given items like green St. Patrick day hats, popsicle sticks, and even some string, to MacGyver the perfect vehicle to transport this egg down three stories.

"The biggest thing was kind of the on-the-fly problem solving, recognizing what we were given and making the best out of it," said Hoyt Leitzke, a junior at MSOE.

Leitzke went on to say there were multiple ways to succeed in this competition.

"There were a lot of different solutions, nobody quite did all the same thing. So, kind of just embracing that mindset, recognizing what we were given and making the best out of it," said the junior.

And while not every drop resulted in a victory, students said sometimes it's about the experience.

'Getting to say, 'hey, I dropped an egg from a three-story building, and it didn’t break,' or 'oh no, it did break,'" said Johnson.

"Hopefully I can do it the next two years and keep my crown," said returning egg drop champion sophomore Katie Duwe.

The students whose eggs did not break after the drop were considered winners; the $500 prize money will be split amongst those students.