After three weeks of designing and building Rube Goldberg Machines, physics students presented their projects on January 30 and 31. There was a panel of other teachers serving as judges who scored the elegance factor on a scale from one to ten. This was determined by how visually appealing their machine was and how many interesting contraptions they included.
Once each group was ready to present, they had three tries to make their machine work. If they were unable to ring the bell twice within the three tries, they would have some points deducted from their overall project grade. For more in depth information on the requirements and specifications of the machine, visit my previous blog titled, “Rube Goldberg Machine Building.”
Each group had a different design but most of them were able to reach the same goal of ringing a bell twice in under three seconds. This project taught them how to collaborate among themselves and provided them with an introduction to engineering basics.
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