I have to admit, this Rube Goldberg machine is pretty friggn’ ingenious—even if it does result in a the gruesome death of a delicious Cadbury Egg. [Telegraph via ...

GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated. The Greenfield-Central ...

Changing a light bulb is a simple task, but how about completing that duty in 20 steps or more, or even designing a new kind of light source altogether? Those are the tasks that will challenge teams ...

The end result of this multi-step machine is to sweep dirt under the rug. submitted If, for some reason, you’re struggling with the concept of cause and effect, get yourself over to the Indiana State ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — College and high school teams will test their carpentry skills in this year's local Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 23 in Purdue University Armory. The contest, sponsored ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick? Or perhaps it was Miss Scarlet in the conservatory with the rope. You'll have to go to the University of Illinois ...

Editor’s note: Joe Procopio is the Chief Product Officer at Get Spiffy and the founder of teachingstartup.com. Joe has a long entrepreneurial history in the Triangle that includes Automated Insights, ...

CHICAGO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NERDS ®, the popular candy brand that celebrates being better together, has announced the winners of the 2021 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Open to the public, ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Are we humans all parts of a meticulously crafted machine? Or are we independent beings, chaotically disrupting one another’s trajectories through time and space? Is there a ...

In 99 percent of cases, saying that an invention is an enormous waste of time would be a negative. In the instance of Rube Goldberg machines, it’s precisely the point. Heck, the more time it wastes, ...