Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Open Daily 10am – 5pm / Closed Major Holidays
The MIT Museum and the Fay School proudly present:
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Welcome back to our sixth year of this contest! We are excited to work with this year's 24 teams, some new some old, and see what everyone is going to crank out!
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The Rube Goldberg Contest calls for teams of 6 students in grades 7-9 to build an overengineered mechanical device in the spirit of Rube Goldberg to accomplish a certain everyday task. Each team is coached by a teacher or parent who receives coaches training at MIT on Saturday January 16th. Teams are given a standard kit of supplies and three months to design their machines. On April 10, all the teams bring their kits and their plans to the Fay School, in Southborough, Massachusetts, for the Competition Day. After a furious morning of sawing, screwing, and glueing, competing teams test their machines and are judged by engineers from MIT and Massachusetts-based engineering companies.
To apply for a slot in the 2010 contest contact tmccauley@fayschool.org or download and submit a Registration Application.
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Jon Markowitz Bijur
Education Coordinator
Phone: 617.253.9607
Fax: 617.253.8994
E-mail: jbijur@mit.edu
For Registration information contact:
Tim McCauley
Fay School RGC Director
E-Mail: tmccauley@fayschool.org
