EuroTeQ Egg Drop Challenge: First Edition, Zero Broken Eggs!
© 2026 EPFL - Jessica Saybouakhao
On April 23, EPFL hosted its first EuroTeQ Egg Drop Competition, a fun, fast-paced engineering challenge where innovation, creativity, and collaboration took center stage.
Five teams of PhD candidates put their engineering skills, ingenuity, and teamwork to the test, with just 15 minutes to build a structure protecting a raw egg from a first-floor drop at the SG building. The structure had to fall freely, no parachutes, no propulsion systems - and the slowest-falling egg that remained intact would win.
The pressure was on, the creativity was high, and remarkably, not a single egg was cracked.
It was a win for everyone as all teams kept their eggs intact, but especially for team “Kippenegg”, who won by just 20 milliseconds.
A small prize (CHF 50.- Migros voucher) was awarded through a random draw to reward participation rather than performance. The lucky winner, Waygen Thor from the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials, was not part of the winning team.
Congratulations to Waygen and the entire “Kippenegg” team - and thank you to all the PhD candidates who rolled up their sleeves and gave it a go!
A big thank you to the Teaching Support Center (CAPE) and the Center for Learning Sciences (LEARN) for organizing it. This was a successful first edition, and a great reminder of what EuroTeQ is all about: bringing people together to solve problems, learn by doing, and have fun along the way.
Follow the EPFL EuroTeQ community on Instagram for highlights from the event and upcoming activities, including the EuroTeQaThon 2026 in Copenhagen this June.
