Rube Goldberg Meet Up #3

On our last meet up, we mostly just made videos. But at the start, we had someone shoot a rubber band gun at the marble to push it down the tube. But then Jackson’s mom said we should have someone kick another person in the butt, which would “activate” the shooting person. But Jackson kept failing at shooting the marble. So we just made up the “Poker 2000.” And we had “Yohan Goravich” (a.k.a Ben Yacoub) Who made the “Poker 2000” (a.k.a Jackson Fielding) poke the marble into the tube.

Rube Goldberg Meet Up #2

Today we added an eight ft tube at the start that drops a ball into a funnel that falls into the marble run. So now we have at least 7 steps, but I still want too add more to it because we have so much more time. Ben Y agreed with me and said that we should add more. I wanted to have a coat hanger kind of zipline on some string, which could knock the marble into the tube.  We still have about 2 weeks left finish, so I hope we’re going to add more.

VIDEO CONVERSATION WITH NASA MEMBER

When I heard about this, I was like OH MY GOSH!!!! Like this was a chance to talk to a NASA member!!! Her name was Rachel Power. I wanted to ask her,”What was you furthest rocket, where was it planning to go, and where it landed?” Even though I couldn’t talk it was still fun and cool. And most people don’t have the chance to talk to a NASA member. So that was a big moment for me!

Rocketry Presentation

I think our rocketry presentation was really good, and that we really payed it off. And that it took a lot of practice to remember what we were going to say, and remember our slides. But overall, we did really good, and we spoke really loud and clear. But that was the end of rocketry!!! And it was a very good unit

Rube Goldberg project meet up #1

On our first meet up, we took a long time to think of our task. We finally came up with popping a balloon with a needle taped onto a car. Jackson’s parents told us to work backwards. So we came up with this. We drop a marble into a marble run, which knocks down dominoes and pushes a toy skateboard  that knocks into more dominoes, which pushes a yo-yo that falls onto a trigger that launches the car, popping the balloon. But we are going to add more to it.