Marble Run Challenge

This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club.

Marble run challenge.

Now design the route your. This game was developed by students of the salzburg university of applied science for the game on 2010 challenge. Paper cups make the perfect material for supporting the structure and they can be cut to any height. The gravitational energy in the marble will depend on the height of the starting point of the marble run and the size of the marble.

Finally a good way to use all of those old cereal boxes. Lots of test runs to figure out where the marble gets stuck or falls off and plenty of tweaking to find ways to slow. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge.

Lego duplo and pool noodle marble run. Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. The marble must run for 60 seconds. Challenge 04 cardboard chair.

Ages 10 as an independent project would be best to do in groups or ages 6 with adult help. Lego marble run use lego bricks to create a marble run. Pool noodle marble run use either duplo or regular lego to build supports for a pool noodle marble run. Play dough cups and craft sticks.

Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. So many building possibilities here. Can you build a marble run with a play dough path. If needed cut an entrance for your marble to enter at the top.

Find something to act as a backboard for your marble run this can be as big or small as you would like. Mozilla game on 2010. Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute. The challenge use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run.

Every user built track that is added to the marble run increases the total length of the over all track. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time. Engineering home 04 the marble run challenge 04 1. Some good ideas are a cereal box or a shoe box lid but any piece of cardboard will do.