Cartoon depicting a complicated machine, with several steps involved, to help a man cool off his soup

Briggs students competing in crazy machine-building contest

  • Briggs Fundamental School students will participate in the second annual San Bernardino County Rube Goldberg competition, to be held Nov. 4 in San Bernardino.

    The event allows students to collaborate as a team to create a complex machine designed to achieve a simple task. This year’s competition challenge is “How to Pour a Bowl of Cereal.”

    The competition will be held at the Pearce Sports Center, 474 W. MacKay Drive, San Bernardino.  The public is invited to view the entries at 1:00 p.m. Awards will be presented beginning at 2:00 p.m.

    Approximately 200 students are expected to compete, representing teams from 10 schools districts in the county that include three elementary schools, 13 middle schools, and five high schools.

    Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways, giving rise to the term Rube Goldberg machines.

     

    (11/1/17)