Nathan Cantrell James Jones Jacob Smith Anna Tourville Team GR8!!! Nathan Cantrell James Jones Jacob Smith Anna Tourville

Team Gr8!!

Introduction The overall goal of the project was to make a working Rube Goldberg that could be triggered by another team and trigger the next team The parts of our device were found in the Estabrook workshop and at Wal-Mart The overall estimated cost of the project was ≈$20

Team Gr8 Project Overview The first step of the device was to trigger a small mousetrap to pull a string and make marbles go down a pvc track. The next step was for the marbles to hit domino’s, striking a toy car and dropping it. The toy car acts as a counterweight and triggers a track that makes another car go. The car goes around a track and launches through a funnel and onto a teeter totter. The teeter totter drops and triggers an ipod and the next project.

The “Goldberg”

Physics Principles Used in the device Torque-mousetrap Collision-dominos Gravitational Potential Energy-car dropping Trajectory-car launching Conservation of Energy-car dropping on teeter totter

Conclusion The project took close to 10 hours time to complete and was worked on by all team members as often as possible Problems -trying to get the dominos to start a car -team moral ran rather low(food fixed this problem) -placement of the mousetrap -launch/land position of the car Through sheer ingenuity we battled through all problems and stuck together as a team.