[BC] Holy ****, the Erector Set is Back!

[Urban, Brian L]

And this showed up in my mailbox

Theta Tau engineering fraternity hosts Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Description: The Theta Tau Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is a competition in which teams of engineering students compete to design and build complicated, multi-stage machines to accomplish a simple task in 20 or more steps. The 2009 task is to replace an incandescent light bulb with a more energy-efficient, light-emitting design.
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: ETC Taylor Room
Admission: Free and open to the public

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/thetatau/rube/

Holy lightbulbs, Batman  20 steps!!

Wish I had time to go see this tonight.

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Brian Urban
Chief Operator
KUT Radio
The University of Texas at Austin
TEL 512-471-1085

On 2/17/09 9:32 PM, "Mike McCarthy" <Towers at mre.com> wrote:

A local university has the annual "Rube
Golberg Contest".  This year's rules included the stipulation that 20
individual mechanical events needed to occur in series prior to simply
pushing a button.  Nothing mechanical is off limits