Monday, April 11, 2005

Purdue University students won the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest



Great Job Boilermakers!

Read about it here:

"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- Purdue University students won the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Saturday by proving that changing the batteries in a flashlight isn't always simple.

Students from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers devised the most whimsically complex method of taking two batteries out of a flashlight, replacing them and turning the flashlight on.

The team, which gave Purdue its third straight national title in the event, used 125 steps to accomplish this year's design task - more than six times the 20 steps required in the event.

"You spend most of your time trying to get the last 1 percent of things to work," said Hollingsworth, a senior in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics from Zionsville.

The winning machine simulated a rocket launch and a meteor impact on Earth, which was - portrayed by an orange pingpong ball...."

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