Rube Goldberg Machine contests challenge participants to accomplish a simple task in the most complex, convoluted way possible using many simple machines - useless on their own - to construct a bigger machine capable of completing the task at hand. The task changes every year, but it is usually something easy for humans to do but possibly quite difficult for a simple machine. To read more, see this link.
Purdue's Chain Reaction team is now the reigning champion two years in a row! See our 2018 and 2019 entries below.
PSPE is the parent organization of the Chain Reaction team at Purdue. To learn and get more involved with the Purdue Chain Reaction team visit the Chain Reaction website.