Marble Run Challenge

Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute.

Marble run challenge.

Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. Play dough cups and craft sticks. Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. Mozilla game on 2010.

Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. Engineering home 04 the marble run challenge 04 1. 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. Ages 10 as an independent project would be best to do in groups or ages 6 with adult help.

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. Find something to act as a backboard for your marble run this can be as big or small as you would like. With increasing length more and more special bricks get unlocked to allow you to build even more tracks.

Every user built track that is added to the marble run increases the total length of the over all track. Lego duplo and pool noodle marble run. Challenge 04 cardboard chair. Paper cups make the perfect material for supporting the structure and they can be cut to any height.

Lego marble run use lego bricks to create a marble run. This game was developed by students of the salzburg university of applied science for the game on 2010 challenge. 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. This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club.

The marble must run for 60 seconds. So many building possibilities here. If needed cut an entrance for your marble to enter at the top. Challenge 03 marble run.

Some good ideas are a cereal box or a shoe box lid but any piece of cardboard will do. Finally a good way to use all of those old cereal boxes. Can you build a marble run with a play dough path. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts.