About 2 months ago, my teacher assigned our class the Rube Goldberg assignment. For this project, you have to build a Rube Goldberg machine, record videos and then  piece together those photos and videos to make a WeVideo. This project was very challenging for many reasons. Keep reading to find out.

My first two designs were not working so I went to my grandpa’s house and we built stuff for the machine. We built a pulley to release a ball. Also we built a wheel and we built something to pop the balloon. For testing I tested the steps one at a time. The dominoes were the most annoying to set up because we kept knocking them over by accident. But to get a successful run it took about 35 attempts. It was very frustrating when parts of the machine did not work.

I had a completely different machine from my first 2 machines. They are different because the first 2 were made out of household items like cups, chairs and Jenga blocks. While my final build was drilled together and made with wood and plastic and metal. Making it out of those materials made it a lot more sturdy. That one adjustment made the project a lot easier.

Making the video was fun. While making the video I added text edited the original videos and added transitions. It was kind of annoying to get the videos into WeVideo because I forgot how to download videos (eventually I figured it out).

Overall this project was super fun but it had some challenges. My biggest challenge was stacking the dominoes for the project they kept falling over. In the end I popped the balloon.