A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device, or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple task in a complicated fashion, generally including a chain reaction. Our grade 8s recently had a chance to make their own machine out of everyday materials as a culminating task on their unit on structures.
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