The Great Egg Race

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The Great Egg Race

• Eggs Over Fish River Canyon

2
The Backdrop

• Spectacular panoramas over the worlds second
  largest canyon.
• The stunning dunes of Sossusvlei

3
The Canyon

• The second largest canyon in the world
• 161km long canyon, up to 27km wide, half a
  kilometre deep and millions of years old
• Inhabited by jackals, klipspringers, hyrax and
  baboon.

4
The Team

• 1 presenter - funny, smart and across it all
• 2 on-screen experts a comedy double act who
  know their stuff and show us how the science
  bit works
• 6 team members - 2 teams of 3 techno geeks they
  build in their sheds, they wire up satellites and
  now - they fire eggs across canyons

5
The Challenge

• To design a device to get an egg safely from one
  side of the canyon to the other.
• Using tools, plans, software, equipment and their
  scientific knowledge.

6
Day 1

• Presenter sets the scene on the dunes of
  Sossusvlei.
• Teams arrive by chopper at the canyon, survey the
  setting and the challenge is laid down
• Each team decides how they will attempt to breach
  the canyon
• They begin to design and build
• Our experts demonstrate scientific principles and
  comment on the teams chances
• Using tent-cam we see how they fare as darkness
  falls and they are left to fend for themselves

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Day 2

• Sun rises on the teams with only 8 hours left
  before lift off, cold and tired after a night in
  the bush, the teams set to work.
• They test components of their contraptions, but
  will they be able to fix the problems they find
  in time ?
• Last minute panics and frayed nerves test team
  work to its limit.
• Its tools down, their time is up.

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The Finale
Standing on the cliff tops side by side, sun low
in the sky the teams launch their eggs across the
canyon. Who will get nearest the bull? Have they
delivered their charges intact? Or will both
teams go down in a blaze of glory? We fly the
teams cross the canyon to see who if anyone
has landed their egg intact.