"Good morning, everyone!" Professor Berger greeted her students cheerfully. "As everyone should already be aware of, Transfiguration is a form of magical mechanical engineering. One of the assignments you can find in any self-respecting engineering class is how to protect a fragile object from being damaged. In this exploration, you will design, evaluate, test, and suggest improvements for a container that will protect their precious payload: an egg. The classic "Egg-Drop" experiment has been a standard in science instruction for many years. Essentially, students are asked to construct some type of container that will keep a raw egg from cracking when dropped from ever-increasing elevations. When you have all read the instructions, I will hand out your starting material of wooden craft sticks. You will then have forty minutes to determine what design you will be going with and build it. You are free to change the starting material to whatever you think will work best as long as it’s nothing dangerous and you know the spell for it. Once I call the end of the experiment, we shall head out to the Grand Staircase and work our way up to the seventh floor to see how well you did." She handed out an instruction sheet to all of the students.