Last Saturday we displayed our 19-step, chain reaction alarm-silencing Rube Goldberg machine at the Pheasant Lane Mall.
The students set up and ran the machine scores of times and each and every time, something in the chain reaction went wrong. Not once did the machine work as advertised. Every time something, and usually something different, went wrong and the machine needed some sort of human interaction.
And yet, it was a great success.
The students had the opportunity to explain what they had learned to scores of people they did not know including students and teachers from other schools. They were supported by their parents and families who came and helped.
Parents of other Hellenic students came to support their efforts too, and that’s one of the things that makes this school so wonderful.
So, while the machine failed, the students succeeded in every way.
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