 About
Us
The Space EGGsploration
Foundation was created by Colorado residents Ed Ludka and
Mike Waid as a non-profit organization charged with promoting space
science education to our youth through challenge events and classroom curricula.
The concept for the Space
EGGsploration Foundation evolved from an educational event held
in 2005 which was created to challenge local youth to design, test and
build a model rocket capable of carrying an egg to over 100 ft and
returning it safely to the ground. This event, The
Rockety EGGsploration Challenge, awarded over $1,000
in college money and prizes to the winning participants.
Why
an EGG?
An egg is a perfect cargo to perform "human-like" space
experiments on. Humans are very similar to eggs-we both have
structures that are resilient up to certain levels. However, once
those levels are crossed both humans and eggs cannot survive.
We challenge kids to solve problems
that limit the manipulation of a delicate cargo...an egg. By
thinking in out-of-the-ordinary ways and applying that thought to the transportation
and manipulation of an egg, our youth are expanding their minds in ways
they normally don't.
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