Working with Noah so far was awesome! We were able to agree on the goal on scoring the ball into the goal, and how we would start it. But we have been having some problems being on the same page. Like with the car, I thought we agreed on not using it, but he said that we were using the car so i got really confused. I thought that we replaced the cars with some building blocks. But he then said were using both. I like that we were working together because other than than that, we have a lot of the same ideas. We are also building our Rube Goldberg as much as we could. It’s really hard for us to get stuff done because we have practically opposite schedules. So we only have pretty much 1 day a week sometimes. And when we are doing it, we get distracted. But we are still getting our work done,(slowly). Rube Goldberg is so far the best unit.

Designing the Rube Goldberg was very difficult because we didn’t know if some parts of our ideas will work. So, Noah and I were kind of testing a bunch of different things as we went. Like When we had a ball sitting on top if the hoop and then have it fall down to hit some pins. We had to find the right ball with enough force and be able to stay on the hoop. We tried tennis balls, lacrosse balls, but we finally came across the right one. The ball we used was was heavy and kind of big. We tested it, and it worked, but, that was with Noah holding it and then letting it go. We need to find out how we can have it stay there without us touching it.  Me and Noah both have sisters that already did the Rube Goldberg so they had experience so they gave us a few pointers in like where we should put something and stuff like that. We also watched a video of someone on AGT (America’s Got Talent) doing a Rube Goldberg. His Rube Goldberg was to score a soccer goal. So was are’s! His had so many steps and it was so complicated. Our parents also helped, they told us to start at a high point so we can get some speed.

I decided for this Rube Goldberg project to work with a partner. I chose to work with Noah. We decided to work at his house because he had more space to work. Our simple task was to score a soccer goal. We had to make decisions on where we would have the ball hit some pins and where it would have enough for to knock the set of pins down. And how we could get a little ball to hit domino’s without the ball rolling away.

For our Rube Goldberg the materials we used were, race car track, 2 small balls, a car, some blocks, funnell, 2 PVC pipes with a connector, a flexible drain pipe, Janga block’s a domino’s, a medium ball, a basketball hoop, bowling pins, books, a mini soccer ball and net. Our goal is to get the mini soccer goal into the net. So  we chose the blocks to hit a ball into a small goal so it would have a lot of power going into the goal. Designing the Rube Goldberg was very, very hard