Three Arkansas middle schools are among nine schools in four states named Chain Reaction Challenge winners in a contest organized by the Garver engineering company to mark the firm's 100th anniversary.
Garver provided 100 science and technology kits and monetary donations to 100 schools across its 11-state service area and asked students to build and video "Rube Goldberg-style chain-reaction contraptions" to be judged by Garver engineers.
A Rube Goldberg-style machine is one that accomplishes a simple task in a complicated or multi-step way.
Winning schools in Arkansas -- where Garver is headquartered -- were Butterfield Trail Middle School in Van Buren, Henderson Middle School in Little Rock and Russellville Middle School. The other winning schools were in Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama.
The winning schools received an additional $1,000 for their science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs, also known as STEM programs.
NW News on 05/26/2019