Penn State is having their annual Rube Goldberg competition this upcoming Saturday at 2pm in the Alumni Hall, you are all welcome to go and I strongly recommend you to do so. It is a really interesting competition, every team needs to build a Rube machine that can do an specific task, this year's task is to replace an incandescent light bulb with a more energy-efficient light-emitting device. I know it sounds complicated, I thought so myself when I first heard about it, but it is really simple it can be just changing a regular light bulb with a more energy-efficient one, one that uses less energy to operate. My team is the SHPE (Society of Hispanic Engineers) and we have been working on our machine since last semester. We have won 2nd place on the last 2 competitions, and we are trying to get 1st place this time.
For those of you who have no idea what a Rube Goldberg machine is, wellthey are those machines where a ball comes and hits a spoon an the spoon lets go another ball which hits a set of dominoes and they al fall etc etc... I hope you understand what I mean, it is just a complicated machine that performs a simple task.
For more information about the competition visit:
http://www.engr.psu.edu/RubeGoldberg/
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