Osgood, IN— The 9th Annual Regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success (GPS) and Jac-Cen-Del Community School Corporation and presented by Duke Energy was held this past Saturday at Jac-Cen-Del High School. This year, twelve teams of middle and high school students competed by creating crazy chain-reaction machines designed to “Turn Off a Light.”
Capturing top honors in Division I was “Stranger Things” from St. Louis School. Second place in Division I was “Christmas Town” from St. Louis School, which also captured the People’s Choice award.
In Division II, “Haunted Halloween” from the Ripley County Engineering Academy captured first place and also won the Peer and People’s Choice awards. Second place in Division II went to “The Greatest Show On/Off Earth” from Batesville High School.
The first and second place winners in each Division are qualified to compete in the 2020 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Finals scheduled for Saturday, April 4 at the Lawrenceburg Event Center. These teams are also invited to exhibit their machines at the Indiana State Museum on Thursday, April 16 as part of The Art of Rube Goldberg Exhibit.
