Several teams of Purdue students are building the most complicated and often humorous machines to load a CD into a computer and run a program, or into a CD player and play music. The contest, free and ...

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 ...

WAUKESHA -- Making complex machines to complete simple tasks. That's what more than 300 high school students were doing on Saturday in Waukesha. More than 20 teams from across the country competed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CLAY COUNTY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Since January, fifth grade students in Clay County have been testing their engineering skills to ...

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

It seems not even basketball court jester is a job that’s safe from from the rise of the machines. Students from Georgia Tech built a giant Rube Goldberg contraption that’s capable of reproducing many ...

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 ...

I have to admit, this Rube Goldberg machine is pretty friggn’ ingenious—even if it does result in a the gruesome death of a delicious Cadbury Egg. [Telegraph via ...

The click-clack of rolling balls and cascading dominoes, punctuated by the occasional shout of frustration, resonated in a Makoy Center room last weekend. Students in grades 2 to 5 at Avery, Crossing ...

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Video and photographs of past contests are available. Journalists will not be allowed on the stage with the machines during the competition, but they are welcome on stage before ...