Rochester, N.Y. — Fourth graders at the Harley School are building complex contraptions this week. Students are using their physics lessons to create their own Rube Goldberg, or chain reaction type ...

Each contraption should include up to 75 “steps” or “transfers of energy,” and the final step should have the machine shaking and pouring a box of Nerds. There are four divisions students can enter: ...

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 ...

Since the late 1980s, Purdue University has invited students to make Rube Goldberg machines accomplishing simple tasks in absurdly complex ways. Each machine has to occupy at least a 6-foot cube, ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Two South Florida seventh graders are the first winners of the newly launched CBS4 Sunday Morning Science Lab contest, where once a month, CBS4 honors the student or students who ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Kids and families are now enjoying the new exhibit at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh called "Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention." In fact, whole families are ...

Choreographer Jody Oberfeld’s latest theatrical movement-based work, “Rube G.-The Consequence of Action,” draws upon the Jewish cartoonist’s signature contraptions. (New York Jewish Week) — Are we ...