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BVR academics: Designing virtual Rube Goldberg machines to clean hands

Posted on May 19, 2020

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Written by Zoe Falkson ’20 and Adam Drizen ’20, BVR marketing interns

Class: Physics
Grade: 9th
Teachers: Sam Reich and Drew Zachary

Ms. Reich and Mr. Zachary’s 9th-grade physics classes worked on Rube Goldberg machines from home. An American cartoonist, Rube Goldberg created designs of machines designed to complete a simple task in an overcomplicated way. The goal of the students’ machine was to clean their hands. Due to the current circumstances, students connected their machines remotely and created a large chain of reactions that resulted in clean hands. Watch the video above!

Posted in BVR Academics

Tagged Expanded Learning Experience, rube goldberg, science

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