The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest®
The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest (RGMC) is a worldwide competition where teams create machines from found or discarded household items. Rewatch the 2024 National Competition.
2024 National Winners
Apprentice Division:
1st Place: Innovative Inventors (Oxford Preparatory School)
2nd Place: ToothPaster 6000 (Memorial Elementary School)
3rd Place: Plaque Preventer Paste Pincher (Hooksett Elementary School)
Best Final Step: The Will Clamper (Peter Woodbury School)
People’s Choice: The Race to ToothPaste (Peter Woodbury School)
Division I (Middle School):
1st Place: Batesville Middle School
2nd Place: Five Days (Homeschooled)
3rd Place: Fairy’s Misfortune (Wonderland Lafayette)
Best Final Step: St. Louis Catholic School
People’s Choice: The Pastinator (Silver Lake Eagles)
Division II (High School):
1st Place: Rube’s Pirates (Fieldston High School)
2nd Place: The Morning Routine (Chatfield High School)
3rd Place: Tooth Fairy Factory (Anderson High School)
Best Final Step: That One Fish Movie (Jac-Cen-Del Jr/Sr High School)
People’s Choice: Rubenheimer (Fieldston High School)
Division III (Collegiate):
1st Place: Boilermaker Rube Goldberg Team (Purdue University)
2nd Place: University of Arizona Rube Goldberg Club
3rd Place: UIUC Mini Golf Mania (University of Illinois Urbana)
Best Final Step: Boilermaker Rube Goldberg Team (Purdue University)
People’s Choice: Boilermaker Rube Goldberg Team (Purdue University)
About the Contest
A Rube Goldberg Machine® is made from found or discarded household items. RGMs come from landfills, rather than contributing to them. The Institute is proud to offer the only STEM competition in the world that requires zero cost to build and participate. Anyone, anywhere, with nothing more than a pile of junk and a great imagination can build an award-winning Rube Goldberg Machine®.
- All ages
- Compete at a live regional as a team
- All machines must complete the annual task
- Judged by a panel of Rube Goldberg experts
- Prizes TBA
