Heat Shield

This year in science class we made a heat shield that could stop a blowtorch from cooking an egg. We were split up into groups of 2-4 people, my group was me, Andrew, and Quinn. To make our final design we needed to find out what materials would work best for our heat shield by running multiple tests. To get the materials we needed for testing we needed to find the materials we thought would work best and use our budget of 100 credits to buy what we needed. After running multiple tests with spackling compound, lasagne, duct tape, metal lathes, and sponges we learned duct tape, spackling compound, and sponges work the best. Next we had to fill out a packet on why we think we should use these items. We then had to put together a presentation talking about our design and why we used it. Lastly we had to do the experiment with our heat shield. In the end the duct tape caught on fire immediately and sadly our egg had 4 mm of cooking.