Last week, the National Engineering Month (NEM) directors did a great job putting together a Rube Goldberg machine to chain together with machines from all over Ontario. The machines were all connected over the internet or with cellular phones and eventually set off a small Rube Goldberg machine at the CN Tower. That machine, in turn, hit a switch to light up the CN Tower with purplelights. The entire event was part of a series of NEM activities that took place between February 26 and March 6. NEM is a series of events that run each year to help promote the engineering profession to elementary school students and to the general public.
The series of Rube Goldberg Machines were set off and streamed live on Friday, March 4, at 6pm. Due to some technical difficulties, the run was not successful and our machine here in Waterloo was in the second half of the relay so it did not get set off. However, there will be a video posted online of the pre-recorded version of the full run. That should be up online in the near future, so I will be posting the link for that on the EngSoc website when it comes out.
A special thanks to Kal Sobel, Erin Matheson, Stephen Kraemer, and all of the great volunteers that came out to help build our Rube Goldberg machine!
Even though NEM is now over, we still have a few events coming up this month, namely Explorations and Bus Push. I wrote about Explorations in my last IW report so take a look at the online archives for more details. Explorations information can also be found on the EngSoc website, although you might have to look back a few pages (navigation at the bottom of the main page) to find the posts since they came out a while ago.
Bus Push will be taking place on March 26. For those of you who don’t know, Bus Push is a charity event where we borrow a GRT bus for the day and get a team of engineering students to manually drag it to Kitchener. The funds raised will go to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Keep checking the EngSoc mailing list and website for more information on that when it comes out.
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