Rube Goldberg Machine Contests

2010 Argonne Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for High Schools

• 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 12, 2010, at Chicago Children's Museum, Navy Pier, Chicago.
• Up to 12 Chicago-area high school teams will build the zaniest machines possible that take 20 or more steps to "dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand."
• In cooperation with the Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, the Chicago Children's Museum, and Rube Goldberg, Inc.

2010 Engineering Open House Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for High Schools

• Friday, March 12, 2010, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• High school teams will build the zaniest machines possible that take 20 or more steps to "dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand."

2010 Theta Tau National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

• Saturday, March 27, 2010, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
• University teams from across the nation will build the whackiest machines possible to "dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand."

What exactly is this Rube Goldberg machine contest anyhow?

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