Currently we are doing a Rube Goldberg project. A Rube Goldberg is a really complex contraption to do a simple task. For example, you could have all kinds of pulleys and levers and tubes and all kinds of other stuff, just to push a soccer ball into a net.

First we made a plan of what our Rube Goldberg would be like, and what the task would be. We decided that our task would be to get a ball into a basket. After we were done with our plan, we started researching ideas for our Rube Goldberg. When we were researching what we could use in our Rube Goldberg, our group, Matthew, Santi and I, came across some videos with some Rube Goldberg ideas we could use. We got this really cool reverse track idea and a bunch of other really cool contraptions like a funnel, a tube, a chain, and some dominoes.

After we got a lot of ideas, we started planning and testing some of our things. Mostly things went well, but when some things got difficult, we got distracted  a bit and didn’t focus on our work. But after a while we got back to our work and got thin done. Some things were challenging when we worked on our Rube Goldberg. For example, some things took lots of precision to set up, and when we tested it, it didn’t even work! Those times got us really frustrated. But after some time, we made it work by moving the parts and trying the parts several times. One part was the reverse track, and we had to make the ball fall on to the track. We fixed the parts but our group had to go back home.

Our Rube Goldberg is still far from done but we are working on it and things are going pretty well. At our next meeting we plan to build and test some more of our Rube Goldberg and move some things to my basement. We will also start planning the 2nd blog post.