Students in Mrs. Avalon’s and Mrs. Casavecchia’s seventh grade math and science classes put their classroom lessons to the test in creating a Rube Goldberg machine!
Students followed design requirements in place for the Goodyear STEM Career Day Rube Goldberg machine contest to create their contraption.
“We were really proud of how the students came together as a team to satisfy all of the requirements laid out in that particular contest,” says teacher Sharon Cassavecchia. “It’s not an easy task, and even though we weren’t able to have our design on display for the Goodyear contest, students kept at it, skipping lunches, staying late, doing whatever it took until the machine worked just right!”
According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Rube Goldberg is a comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously created to perform a simple operation. Goodyear was challenging classes to design a Rube Goldberg Machine utilizing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) principles to fill a Goodyear Blimp. Cardinal students will have their Rube Goldberg machine on display and provide demonstrations at the State of the Schools address on April 30.
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