Our Rube Goldberg team, which recently won first place in their regional competition, won second place in the Rube Goldberg National Competition on Saturday.
Mike Mierzwa, Theta Tau’s national contest chairman and a Purdue senior in nuclear engineering from Morris Plains, N.J., said this year’s competition was extremely close. St. Olaf edged out the No. 2 team from the University of Illinois. The Illinois team had won the Purdue regional competition in February with its “Scene of the Crime” machine based on the board game Clue.
Congrats to our Rube Goldberg team!
Full Story: First-time entrant captures Rube Goldberg national title
Update: Here is a video of the winning machine:
April 5th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
[...] out the Quad blog article about the college level team from the University of Illinois. They took second in the national [...]
April 5th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Hey! Great job, U of I team!
Looks like the highschool team from Engineering Open House took 2nd place in their competition at Purdue University as well!
U of I produces great machines!
Check out an article about the highschool team: http://ben-writes.com/?p=83
April 6th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Congrats to the Uof I Team – for a job well done! Second in the nation is awesome!
And congrats are also due to the home-school group, Cornerstone Discovery Group from Champaign/Urbana, who also won second place nationwide!
Great fun, friendly (but stiff) competition, lots of talent and creativity – at both the college and high-school levels. The time at the Purdue Armory was well worth the drive!!! And we are so proud of our home teams.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
The excitement of the Cornerstone Discovery Group coming in 2nd in the national competition continues to be high around here! Pictures in the house are keeping it alive. Congratulations Misfit Things! You make all of us proud!