Scott Swanson
The biggest surprise at Hawthorne School’s Egg Drop Challenge Thursday, Feb. 25, was the contraption that didn’t drop.
As custodian Mark Lindquist leaned off an 8-foot stepladder and released Kayla Robbins’ class’s entry in the competition, in which classes designed and built apparatus to protect raw eggs in a fall to the ground, the helium balloons supporting it caught a puff of wind that launched it skyward.
A wave of “Ohhhhhhhh’s!” rose from…