This is an actual student built Rube Goldberg 20-step machine. The objective of this machine was to prepare a bowl of cereal for breakfast. ... Section 1) Like an architect, you must make a "blue print" drawing of your Rube Goldberg machine listing all twenty steps with the proper names of the different simple machines.
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2010 Argonne Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for High Schools ... Up to 12 Chicago-area high school teams will build the zaniest machines possible that take 20 or more steps to "dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand."
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2010 CHALLENGE — The challenge for the 2010 Rube Goldberg machine contest is to dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand in 20 or more steps.
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Named after the famous cartoonist, Rube Goldberg machines are unlike ordinary gadgets in that they are deliberately inefficient, taking the maximum number of steps to achieve a goal. Last year’s winner of the Rube Goldberg competition took over three hundred steps to squeeze a glass of orange juice.
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Number of steps: The machine must complete its task in no fewer than 20 steps. ... please contact the Contest Executive Director of Rube Goldberg Machine ...
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your results; Sent in by: The ZOOMers; Complicated contraptions! Rube Goldberg designed inventions that made simple tasks much more complicated. Now you try to create one that puts toothpaste on a toothbrush in at least twenty steps. ... I had to get a pencil to land in a pencil case 20 ft away! It worked! Iwas so happy!
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The task for the 2010 Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is: Dispense an .... The 2007 challenge was to juice an orange in 20 or more steps. ...
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Aspire Simple Machines - This is a great site! ... Edheads Simple Machines -Wow, don't miss this! Includes a Teacher's Guide also!! ... Rube Goldberg Site...
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Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg, college students nationwide compete to design a machine that uses the most complex process to complete a simple task - put a stamp on an envelope, screw in a light bulb, make a cup of coffee - in 20 or more steps.
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The machine must have a minimum of twenty (20) steps.  There is no maximum number of steps. ... No corporate logos or names may be displayed on the machines. ... While technically each single domino falling is a step, stating one hundred steps because of the dominos is repetitive is not in the spirit of Rube Goldberg.
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