Marble Run Challenge

Ages 10 as an independent project would be best to do in groups or ages 6 with adult help.

Marble run challenge.

Paper cups make the perfect material for supporting the structure and they can be cut to any height. Engineering home 04 the marble run challenge 04 1. The marble must run for 60 seconds. The challenge use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run.

Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club. This game was developed by students of the salzburg university of applied science for the game on 2010 challenge. Mozilla game on 2010.

Lego marble run use lego bricks to create a marble run. Finally a good way to use all of those old cereal boxes. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design 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.

Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts. Now design the route your. If needed cut an entrance for your marble to enter at the top.

Some good ideas are a cereal box or a shoe box lid but any piece of cardboard will do. So many building possibilities here. With increasing length more and more special bricks get unlocked to allow you to build even more tracks. Play dough cups and craft sticks.

Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute. Lots of test runs to figure out where the marble gets stuck or falls off and plenty of tweaking to find ways to slow. Find something to act as a backboard for your marble run this can be as big or small as you would like. Every user built track that is added to the marble run increases the total length of the over all track.

Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. Lego duplo and pool noodle marble run. Pool noodle marble run use either duplo or regular lego to build supports for a pool noodle marble run. Challenge 03 marble run.