Students at First Odessa Christian Academy spent Thursday showing their Rube Goldberg machine projects as part of the school’s Rube Goldberg day Thursday in Odessa. Students who participated were ...

As a math intervention teacher at Bryant Middle School, Shannon Mauras knew that projects rooted in the science, technology, math and science could help her students gain a greater interest. She ...

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 ...

CANASTOTA >> High School physics students were asked to put their engineering skills to the test with a project involving Rube Goldberg-type machines, which they unveiled to the public Thursday. Rube ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Dominoes topple, marbles roll, and everyday objects transform into extraordinary chain reactions under the guidance of award-winning children's author Catherine Thimmesh, who ...

Rube Goldberg machines, those incredibly overcomplicated contraptions designed to accomplish a very simple task, are a dime a dozen on YouTube. We've featured a handful of over-the-top or otherwise ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The votes are in, and the Purdue University Society of Manufacturing Engineers' team scored a win Saturday (2/28) in the 22nd annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Employing a ...

(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, ...

The 1900s cartoonist Rube Goldberg was best known for his illustrations of over-the-top machines, complex contraptions designed to do simple things, requiring dozens of steps involving levers, gears, ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...