Radical Rube Goldberg!

My class has been assigned one of the most complicated projects yet and I’m so excited. My class is supposed to create a Rube Goldberg contraption, and this is the “behind the scenes of mine…”

A Rube Goldberg Machine:

A simple task done in a complicated manor.


My Rube Goldberg team consists of Julia Hope and I. For this project my team has to create a seven to ten step Rube Goldberg machine that will in the end complete a simple task.


So far we have discovered and tried three different attempts of creating our Rube Goldberg machine. Our first attempt came out a little to much like a fantasy and not close enough to a reality. For example, one of the steps was supposed to have a can send a basketball rolling which would knock a water bottle off a table. It had to include a lot of force that the can did not have.


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