Teacher Training Results
Training day results from last year may be found here.

On January 27, 2007, all of the instructors of this year's twenty teams competing in the third annual Rube Goldberg machine design contest attended teacher training day at the MIT Museum. The training consisted of information about the contest, changes to the rules, tool safety training, lunch, a crash course on thinking like an engineer, and several hands-on physics experiments led by MIT student mentors.

Download the physics experiment worksheets.
   - Friction worksheet (Word Document)    - Pendulum worksheet (Word Document)
   - Pulley worksheet (Word Document)    - Spring worksheet (Word Document)

Pictures from the day
If you have pictures form training day, please send them to Jesse and they will be posted.

Dr. Chris Schoberl, Academic Dean of Fay School, and Dr. Beryl Rosenthal, Director of Education and Public Programs at MIT Museum, welcome the faculty coaches to training day.

The faculty coaches pick up their team's kits for this year's competition.

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They count the tongue depressors.

And the cups.

The 2007 contest task is revealed! Apply toothpaste to a toothbrush. Completion of the task will be measured by the mass of toothpaste applied to the toothbrush -- hence the electronic scales.

Dave Barber gives a talk on tool safety.

John Glowa gives a talk on thinking like an engineer.

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