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Next Competition: April 25, 2008
Everybody's always looking for ways to make things easier ... well, here's your chance to make things complicated!
Poke fun at technology by making a simple task as complicated as you can - in fact that's the challenge. It's a great way to understand physics and engineering while having a laugh.
Rube Goldberg (rōōb' gōldˊ berg) n. a comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation. - Webster's New World Dictionary.
The event is named after the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and engineer who became famous for his cartoons of overly complicated machines designed to accomplish something simple.
Last year's challenge
Take a whole orange, juice it, and pour the juice from a pitcher into a cup in 10 steps or more.
How to get involved
Talk to a teacher about being the advisor for a group and sign up at http://www.rubegoldberg.com/
The contest is hosted by the Milwaukee Colleges of Engineering and Technology Partnership, comprising Milwaukee School of Engineering, Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, Engineers & Scientists of Milwaukee, Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Waukesha County Technical College.