May 18, 2018

Dear Kellogs,

My name is Nicholas Humphreys Lucas, and my group partners Miles Carr,

Harris Ewald, and Hank Gardner are working on a High school geometry project. For
our geometry high school project, we were required to choose a product and try and
make the product packaging more efficient. Upon opening the 10 count waffles
package, we realized we could make a few minor adjustments to the packaging. This
means we could decrease the amount of cardboard used and therefore decrease the
price of packaging production.
When we created the prototype for your product packaging we decided to make
the package have an octagonal base. We did this when we created a smaller
rectangular prism, and cut off the corners. There was an especially large amount of
wasted space in the plastic wrap placed around the eggos. So we decided to put the
eggos in a stack of 10 and recommend fitting the plastic wrap to the size of the stack.
Then for the ease of opening the package we created 3 tabs. Two tabs opposite of each
other for the attachment of the base to the sides, and one tab so the top of packaging
can be open and closed easily.
Originally your package only used 60.3% of the package being used with
3
819𝑐𝑚 of unused airspace. When we created the prototype we were able to
save176𝑐𝑚3 and increase the amount of airspace used by 5%. We also reduced the net
surface area by 252 𝑐𝑚2 which means that the pricing of package production will
decrease. Decreasing the product space and material usage will make the packaging
more environmentally friendly. When we placed the eggos in a stack of 10 we were able
to cut off some plastic in the prototype and still fully conceal the eggos in plastic. While
you will have to create new fitting pictures to be added to the new shape. This new
information could be used in advertisements as the eco-friendly eggo box that is
cheaper to produce.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Humphreys Lucas Harris Ewald

Student Student
Austin High School Austin High School

Miles Carr Hank Gardner

Student Student
Austin High School Austin High School