Rube Goldberg Competition Info, Teams Forming and Coach Sharing

Rube Goldberg was an American artist, engineer and an inventor.

His inventions all include use of the six simple machines – the wedge, screw, lever, pulley, inclined plane and the wheel and axle.

These inventions use the simple machines in impractical ways, but they have inspired many contraptions in movies: – to name a few

Modern Times (1936)-Eating Machine gets an honorable mention.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)-Breakfast Machine
Brazil (1985)-Even More Breakfast Machines
The Goonies (1985)-Automatic Gate
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)- Yet Another Breakfast Machine
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)-The Trap
The Way Things Go (1987) (Short)
Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)-Ernest’s House
Back to the Future Part III (1990)- Doc Brown’s Inventions
Beauty and the Beast (1991)- Wood Chopper
Flubber (1997)- Breakfast Machine
Robots (2005)- The Crosstown Express
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)-Anti-Pesto Alarm
List from IMDB https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10935966/movieconnections/

Join us as we work to create teams at the elementary, middle, high school and family level and share the wonder of Rube Goldberg contraptions.

Individual and team training:
Wednesdays January 25 to March 15 5-7 PM via Zoom.
3rd Saturdays, January, February 12:30 to 4PM at Makersville 419 Shoreline Village Drive, Suite Q, Long Beach, CA 90802

More training and competition
March 18 – 12:30 to 4PM.
*PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE IS POSSIBLY SUBJECT TO RELOCATION IF THE COMPETITION OUTGROWS THE SPACE *

Don’t wait for a meeting, call us if you would like to engage the youth in your circle in a team!
patricia@makersvilleservices.org 562-225-9589