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Shakopee on YouTube: Jr. High Rube Goldberg Machines
Students show off science class homework in short explanatory—and action!—video clips.
In recent weeks, Shakopee junior high science students have posted quite a few YouTube videos of their homemade "Rube Goldberg" experiments.
In the clips, students explain what their crazy contraptions are supposed to do and demonstrate how the machines work—or not.
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Either way, you could spend a few minutes in worse ways than watching a few of these young scientists' tributes to legendary cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.
Watch them above, or sample a short video of an apparently successful experiment at YouTube.com.
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