Vancouver Island University’s engineering transfer program students have finished off their learning year with creations that would do honour to Rube Goldberg.

In the Nanaimo campus’ upper cafeteria, the students spent their last day of class Friday, April 11, demonstrating how they put their heads and their projects together to create interconnected rolling ball structures.  

Nine four-student teams worked together to build their individual devices that are essentially convoluted ways to transport steel ball bearings along tracks by raising them with a lift system and, once at the top, letting gravity do the rest, with some mechanisms and electronics installed to control the speed and spacing of the balls along their journeys. 

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