Soy eggs are a good alternative. :o) Less messy, too!

Sweetie if you tell your tech teacher this he is going to make you take to biology class over again. The eggs sold in stores are not furtalized by a rooster so will never develope into chickens.

The only argument I'd have is your wasting food doing this experiment.

Your argument should not center around the "happy little chickens" as the odds that the eggs were fertilized are nil.

Water balloons or flour sacks could make good vegan alternatives.

The eggs will never turn into chicks they are not fertilised. Without wishing to sound to crude but think of an egg as a chickens period, it has to lay it but as stated it is not fertilised. If you wish to disagree with egg products then complain to the techer about the way the hens are treated to get the eggs (if is school buying they are probably from caged hens) this will sound a more valid complaint then "they could have been cute fluffy chicks".
How can you say it will not be used in the real world, one of your lcass mates might become an engineer and find learn about the vibration caused from motion etc useful for their careers

Eggs bought in supermarkets aren't fertilized and will not therefore grow into chickens if you left them. Imagine if little chickens started hatching in your kitchen because you left them out too long!

There are of course all of the arguments as to why you shouldn't buy eggs from a vegan stance but if you're not vegan and eat eggs then you can't really use them as an argument.

You could always argue on the basis of it being a waste of food. Then again, a way around this would be to make a tiny hole in the bottom, let the insides leak out (which you can then eat) and then you could either fill the egg up with water or use it hollow.

I'm rambling... why are you so against this again?

You could just bring up the fact that food prices are rapidly rising and that millions of children go to bed hungry every night.

That's an argument no one can deny.

say this:

:excuse me, i am a vegan (assuming you are, if you aren't get rid of that) and I don't feel comfortable with the idea of using eggs for this project. i have come up with some alternatives. if you think they might be too costly, i can pay for them."

some alternatives:
water balloons

cup with water

melted chocolate egg (if it falls it is messy!)

'Some stupid project that no one is going to use in the real world', what a statement.

Projects like this are used to give you an understanding of accelleration and inertia, they are used in the auto industry to design cars that can protect the occupant in event of impact.

They are used in the aero industry to design seats that can help save your life, or even parachutes in order to get the canopy just the right size to keep weight to an absolute minimum but still stop you from landing too hard.

How about even the design of the egg carton itself, it is constructed so as to give maximum protection from shock and impact.

No, like many others have pointed out, the worst you can argue is waste of food.

Other than that - you might actually learn something.

wow i wish folks could spell ! anyhow the use of non fertile ovum is a waste of food. paint balls work as well or try plastic Easter Eggs.or Cadburry Eggs then you could eat them afterwords......