Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
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Date
12/09/2005
Description
The Pittsburgh Regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest (RGMC) is a spirited competition for students in grades 9-12 and is one of the exciting National Engineers Week events. The RGMC fosters an interest in engineering by challenging students to create a machine that will accomplish a specific task using a series of convoluted steps. The RGMC is sponsored in part by Westinghouse.
This year’s challenge is to put toothpaste on a toothbrush in fifteen steps or more. Under the guidance of an engineer mentor (optional) and a teacher sponsor, teams will:
Submit a preliminary design drawing.
Submit a series of progress photos that show the machine’s evolution.
Build a machine that accomplishes the assigned task.
Demonstrate their machine and make a verbal presentation.
The RGMC will be held on Friday December 9, 2005 at the Carnegie Science Center’s UPMC SportsWorks complex. It is on this day that the students will demonstrate their machine and make the verbal presentation.