Students from nine Pittsburgh area school districts gathered at the Westinghouse Global Headquarters in Cranberry Township on Friday to compete in the Chris Savinda Memorial Chain Reaction ...

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Pulleys, robots, catapults, dominoes, ramps, weights, gears and even mousetraps all came into play as students from area schools worked together to build a giant Rube Goldberg style machine. Maker ...

Familiar to anyone who played The Incredible Machine, this pleasing puzzle game challenges you to cobble together Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. It's a blast. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

Rube Goldberg Workshop is now available on Quest, letting you make tons of different crazy—dare we say—Rube Goldbergian machines. Built on Quest’s Presence platform, users can choose to play either in ...

The 15th annual Challenge Day on Thursday brought together 135 gifted fifth-graders from Dauphin County's 10 school districts. In teams of five, students built crazy contraptions to do simple tasks, ...

In line with the worldwide social media event called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, they accepted the challenge and made it more high tech. In this video, the technical staff of Digi-Key designed a ...