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I have always wanted to be involved in building a Rube Goldberg
device. Count me in!<br>
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On 6/4/2012 11:51 AM, Jenett Tillotson wrote:
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cite="mid:CAN0H+1-tNdazqqN5T1SMX14rf-BZo_95wXergShc2OGCXj61DA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Wonderlab is having a Rube Goldberg event. See more
information below. I'm happy to organize this if there is enough
interest to build a link. Is anyone interested in being involved?<br>
<br>
Jenett<br>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Staci Radford-Vincent</b> <span
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Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM<br>
Subject: Rube Goldberg day at WonderLab<br>
To: Jenett Tillotson <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jtillots@gmail.com">jtillots@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Hi Jenett,<br>
This coming September 15th, we will be hosting our first Rube
Goldberg<br>
event at WL. We are planning an event where individuals and
groups<br>
construct their own Rube Goldberg device that will link in with
others,<br>
creating a collaborative Rube Goldberg machine. I'm currently
working on<br>
recruiting a handful of community groups who would be interested
in building<br>
their own component of the machine, and the first group that
came to mind<br>
was BloomingLabs!<br>
Can you help me out with recruiting some people that are part
of<br>
BloomingLabs who would be interested in committing to building
something to<br>
be part of our event?<br>
Below are the guidelines we currently plan to use, but there
may be more<br>
details added in the next week or so.<br>
<br>
Current guidelines for building the individual components<br>
* Your "link in the chain" should be no more than 3 feet wide
and should<br>
fit on a table.<br>
* Your machine must begin and end by a string pull. Be sure
that it<br>
takes no more force than the hanging weight of a golf ball to
start your<br>
link, and that it ends by pulling a string with enough force to
lift a golf<br>
ball several inches.<br>
* Your link must be repeatable (you may need to reset it).<br>
* Your machine needs to be safe. And, no spilling liquids,
exploding<br>
volcanoes, foaming, bubbling, oozing chaos, live animals, etc.<br>
<br>
Let me know if you can help, and also if you have any other
suggestions of<br>
groups who I can contact that might be interested.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
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--<br>
Staci Radford-Vincent<br>
Program and Outreach Manager<br>
WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology<br>
308 W 4th St, Bloomington, IN, 47404<br>
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"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A
scientist in<br>
his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child
placed before<br>
natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."<br>
-Marie Curie
(1867 - 1934)<br>
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