{"id":21230,"date":"2015-07-23T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=21230"},"modified":"2015-07-23T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:21:12","slug":"2015-rube-goldberg-contest-at-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/07\/2015-rube-goldberg-contest-at-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Rube Goldberg Contest at UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQGTcB7HzLo\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE CONTESTS\u00ae (RGMCs) are designed to encourage teamwork and out-of-the-box problem solving for students of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>This event highlights one of the many facets that encompasses what collaborating as engineers is all about. Encouraging teamwork to accomplish a unique goal is one of the many traits that these young engineers will take away and will last a life time.<\/p>\n<p>In this year&#8217;s contest, the Engineering Ambassadors at UConn School of Engineering were the hosts for this event.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the competition were:<\/p>\n<p>1st Place \u2013\u00a0H.H. Ellis Technical High School<br \/>\n 2nd Place \u2013\u00a0Grasso Technical High School<br \/>\n 3rd Place \u2013\u00a0Wolcott Technical High School,\u00a0Newton\u2019s\u00a0Disciples<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Rube Goldberg Machine Contests please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubegoldberg.com\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE CONTESTS\u00ae (RGMCs) are designed to encourage teamwork and out-of-the-box problem solving for students of all ages. This event highlights one of the many facets that encompasses what collaborating as engineers is all about. Encouraging teamwork to accomplish a unique goal is one of the many traits that these young engineers will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":24125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-21230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 07:29:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/24125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}