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Indian Woods Middle School wins the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Teammates from Indian Woods Middle School get their Rube Goldberg machine ready to run. Greg Hack ghack@kcstar.com The simplest machines may well be the most efficient and elegant. But the most ... read more

Rube Goldberg’s ornery, inquisitive spirit lives through machine-building competition - The Kansas City Star

During a March 3 face-off among innovative young engineers, bowls of Cocoa Puffs, Cheerios, and Lucky Charms met their match in the 2018 Rube Goldberg Machine contest, which challenged middle and ... read more

Purdue team wins 30th anniversary Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Society of Professional Engineers (PSPE) won first place Sunday (April 22) in the 2018 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest college division at Chicago’s Museum of Science and ... read more

Students Vie To Over-Engineer in 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

New Auburn High School students came up with the overly engineered concoction, shown in this YouTube video, thereby winning the 2014 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for high schools. A Rube Goldberg ... read more

Machine tracing history of Rube Goldberg competition wins local contest

Sponsors for this year's event are Alcoa, Lockheed Martin, Priio, Rockwell Collins, Omega Engineering, and the Purdue Colleges of Engineering and Technology and the School of Mechanical Engineering. read more

Students Vie To Over-Engineer in 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

A Rube Goldberg Machine is an overly complex contraption, designed with humor and a narrative, to accomplish a simple task. The contest is inspired by the whimsical designs of Pulitzer-winning ... read more