Rube Goldberg Reflection

The process of building the Rube Goldberg Machine has been both difficult and complicated and it requires a lot of concentration, collaboration and flexibility. All of this is worth it because the pride and splendid feeling you get when you look at your final project it so amazing (as so I’ve been told). Every fail in the machine is a learning experience. We take our time on each step to make sure it is working properly and correctly. Some stuff we experienced was how the ball kept from falling outside of the course. To prevent that from happening we decided to put cardboard on the sides of the course so they ball has no way to escape. But if it tries to, it would bounce off the cardboard and back onto the course. This showed us that if if we mess up, we just have to get right back to work and try different ideas until finally, one works. Nothing will stop the fearless engineers!

 

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