North Allegheny High School sophomore Mason Blackburn wanted Alex the Lion to escape the zoo, but it wasn't that simple. The team hit a few roadblocks along the way, he said. Levers overcomplicated ...

On Friday, students at Franklin Middle School took the Garver Chain Reaction Challenge, in which they created Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction contraptions with wood planks, balls and other everyday ...

DETROIT – A team at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit wants to set a record for building the largest chain reaction machine. Plans call for it to be activated Saturday and run nearly 30 minutes.

Hempfield students might not have traveled down a long and lonesome highway, but they did take inspiration from musician Bob Seger’s song “Turn the Page” to help them clinch second place at the ...

SAND SPRINGS — Dozens of kids cheered as Gavin McClaran dropped the small metallic ball down the wooden ramp and groaned as the structure quickly crumbled. The 9-year-old student at Keystone ...

Students from the honors physics class at Cambria Heights High School, Ebensburg, traveled to Westinghouse on Friday, Feb. 23, to compete in the Chain Reaction Contraption Competition. There were ...

The centennial anniversary of Garver, a North Little Rock-based engineering company, instigated multiple chain reactions Monday at the Arkansas Capitol. What started as Neal Garver's one-man shop in ...

Want to see a card trick? Hempfield high school students have one, and it takes over 20 different steps to execute. Performed by a student-built contraption named “Ab’rube’cadabra,” Hempfield students ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Carnegie Science Center was filled with Rube Goldberg-style contraptions Friday. High school students put their engineering talents to work, creating complicated mechanisms, ...

Junior high students at Valley Christian in San Jose spent the past month building an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine. Those students set off the intricate, chain reaction contraption Wednesday ...

PATTON — Cambria Heights High School physics students took home the top prize during the Chain Reaction Contraption competition at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. Six students competed in ...