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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animas High School students in Brian Morgan’s ninth-grade physics classes will present their Rube Goldberg machines from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at the school, 20091 Highway 160 west. Rube ...

Local students enrolled in Reach Cyber Charter School honed their science, technology, engineering and math skills Wednesday ...

Mar. 17—RIPLEY COUNTY — The 13th annual, regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success and the Batesville Community School Corporation was held on Saturday, Feb. 24, ...

A simple dinner-time request to pass the wine has never looked so complicated. But that’s what the Joseph’s Machines YouTube channel is known for. Rube Goldberg devices delivering food and drink in a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Zach Umperovitch, a 2011 Purdue alumnus, recently debuted "Crazy Contraptions," a competition show that focuses on the fun and intricate engineering involved in Rube Goldberg ...

STOCKBRIDGE — You might not hear the phrase as often anymore, but every once in a while, something will be described as a "Rube Goldberg machine." This is not a compliment. Referring back to the work ...

A Brooklyn man has found modest internet fame by creating Rube Goldberg machines -- complicated contraptions designed to elaborately perform simple tasks. "I make chain reaction machines," Joseph ...

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 fun of a Rube Goldberg machine is watching the ingenuous, frequently unexpected ways the device’s creator comes up with to keep them going. But, ultimately, watching one in action is a passive ...