Westview Elementary School egg drop
Hundreds of Westview Elementary School kids gathered Thursday morning for something precarious: to watch an egg drop.
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Second-grader Jordan Adams, celebrates the survival of the raw egg suspended in a cage of plastic straws Thursday, June 1, 2017, after it was dropped by a firefighter from 25 feet at Westview Elementary in North Spokane. Most of the student body tried their hand at designing a package that would keep the egg whole when dropped.
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Students at Westview Elementary line up to enter their egg packaging into the egg drop contest Thursday, June 1, 2017. Local firefighters provided the ladder truck to make the drops.
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Firefighter Casey Mayfield stows an egg package shaped like a large balloon animal before ascending to the drop height on a ladder truck to throw the packages off Thursday, June 1, 2017 at Westview Elementary in North Spokane. Most of the student body tried to build a package that would protect an egg when dropped from a great height.
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Students at Westview Elementary in North Spokane watch as yolk squirts out of a package as it bounces on the playground tarmac Thursday, June 1, 2017. Much of the student body participated in an egg drop contest, where each student tried to create a package that could keep an egg from breaking when dropped from a fire department ladder truck.
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Jozalyn Ives hauls her successful egg package, a virtual balloon animal off the playground after it successfully protected the egg Thursday, June 1, 2017 at Westview Elementary. Most of the student body participated in the event, with a few eggs breaking along the way.
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Firefigher Casey Mayfield drops one of the egg packages from a ladder truck at Westview Elementary in North Spokane Thursday, June 1, 2017. The annual event at Westview brings out most of the student body to see if their eggs will survive the drop.
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A raw egg, and its protective layer of cotton balls, flies apart during an unsuccessful drop Thursday, June 1, 2017 at Westview Elementary in North Spokane. The annual egg drop contest had had a mix of cracked eggs and survivors.
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