Rube Goldberg challenge The inspiration for this event was Rube Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and inventor, well known from the 1930s to the 1950s for his funny cartoons, many of which ...

BLOOMSBURG — The Ninth Annual Rube Goldberg Challenge, sponsored by the Columbia-Montour Council Boy Scouts of America, will be open to students in first through 12th grades who are interested in ...

Cosmo holds a sign to advertise the first ever virtual BYU Engineering Rube Goldberg challenge. Cosmo built a Rube Goldberg machine in the atrium of the Engineering Building to advertise the challenge ...

The BYU College of Engineeringannounced the winners for the third annual Rube Goldberg Challenge. A Rube Goldberg machine is 'a contraption that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple ...

Zach Umperovitch (in hat) adjusts the PSPE/SHPE machine at the local Rube Goldberg competition Saturday at Purdue. The team won the competition and will compete in the national contest March 31. Also ...

On Saturday, six creative teams of Olathe School District middle and high school students participated in the 30th annual Rube Goldberg machine contest: Pour a Bowl of Cereal. The event was held at ...

The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs that solves a simple problem through complicated means. But it might surprise you to learn that the ...

The contest begins at 11 a.m. in the Cumberland Place Exhibition Center in West Lafayette, Ind., near the Purdue University campus. Teams from Purdue and four other universities will compete to select ...

The cartoonist’s granddaughter is holding a bar-of-soap competition that encourages families to work collaboratively. Video submissions are due May 31. By Hilarie M. Sheets As if we weren’t already ...

It’s not often a cartoonist achieves notoriety of such a level that his or her name comes to stand for something else. Usually their characters live on, their images morphing into decals on cars’ rear ...