Meet the 17-Year-Old, Award-Winning, Rube Goldberg Parts Manufacturer - Issue 23: Dominoes
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Last Tuesday afternoon, 17-year-old Tommy George dragged the remains of a Rube Goldberg machine into his teacher’s classroom. Designed and built by Tommy and the other members of his team, named “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” after the Marvel comic, it used a collection of insulation tubing, cardboard, Styrofoam, wires, and a Nerf gun to wipe a whiteboard clean. The Agents had entered it into the White Plains, New York regional division of the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest—and won first place. Between the regional, and the national competitions that happened about a month later, Tommy spent much of his time thinking about college, where he knows he wants to study chemical engineering. The funny thing is, just a few years ago, he was sure he’d grow up to be an author, or an English professor (...)