Marble Run Challenge

Can you build a marble run with a play dough path.

Marble run challenge.

Mozilla game on 2010. Find something to act as a backboard for your marble run this can be as big or small as you would like. This game was developed by students of the salzburg university of applied science for the game on 2010 challenge. As the marble starts to move and the energy changes from gravitational energy to kinetic energy the distance the marble travels will depend on the design of the ramp and the friction involved.

Lego marble run use lego bricks 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. Engineering home 04 the marble run challenge 04 1. With increasing length more and more special bricks get unlocked to allow you to build even more tracks.

Now design the route your. The marble must run for 60 seconds. Some good ideas are a cereal box or a shoe box lid but any piece of cardboard will do. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time.

Lego duplo and pool noodle marble run. 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. Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club.

Paper cups make the perfect material for supporting the structure and they can be cut to any height. So many building possibilities here. Finally a good way to use all of those old cereal boxes. Challenge 04 cardboard chair.

If needed cut an entrance for your marble to enter at the top. Lots of test runs to figure out where the marble gets stuck or falls off and plenty of tweaking to find ways to slow. Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. Pool noodle marble run use either duplo or regular lego to build supports for a pool noodle marble run.

The challenge use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts. Ages 10 as an independent project would be best to do in groups or ages 6 with adult help. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge.