Annual Innovation Festival S.T.E.A.M Machines Returns Sunday, March 4th
• Path to Innovation Panel featuring NASA JPL, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Uber/Elevate
• Exhibition Showcase of the latest in tech, science and the arts
• National Rube Goldberg Competition for middle school and high school students
SANTA MONICA – (February 2018) – Machines take the pier! On Sunday, March 5, the Santa Monica Pier becomes a nucleus of innovation as it welcomes many of the country’s tech leaders, educators and students for the 5th Annual S.T.E.A.M Machines Innovation Fair. This free one-day event invites all to playfully dive into an interactive experience that connects the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, designed to inspire the next generation of innovators, artists, designers and scientific leaders.
From 11:00am to 5:00pm, S.T.E.A.M. Machines will entertain and enlighten in three ways: an Innovation Exhibition presenting over 12 experiential and groundbreaking delights, a Path to Innovation Panel attended by leaders from pioneering tech companies (including Hyperloop, Uber / Elevate, and NASA JPL), and the Royal Rumble of Rube competition in which student teams from across the nation face off in a Rube Goldberg contraption contest.
Innovation Exhibition
All Day
Innovation exhibits hosted by event partners that will be sparking curiosity and engagement throughout the pier:
Hyperloop
Urban Objects
Heal the Bay / Aquarium
reDiscover Center
STEMup4Youth
T4T.org
Creamistry
Tesla
Robotics Society Southern California
Radiant Images
Steve Craig Drawing Machines
Path to Innovation Panel
2:00pm – 3:30pm
A panel of tech wizards will share visions from the future and hopes for their groundbreaking fields:
Morgan Cable, JPL
Dirk Alhborn, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Chris Garcia, Uber / Elevate
Gray Bright, Tomorrow Show Host
Sharlene Loh, StemUp4Youth Founder & CEO
Rube Goldberg Curious Contraption Contest
11:30am – 2:00pm
How complicated can it be to pour a bowl of cereal?
That’s the challenge posed to student teams from Santa Monica to Arkansas – and the objective their Rube Goldberg contraptions must execute in minimum of 20 chain reactions. Up and down the Santa Monica Pier, over a dozen machines will be operating in 10’x10′ plots, each tinkering towards that final milk-pouring mechanism. The winning team will be judged and awarded a cash prize and entry to the national competition by a creditable committee: Lyle Tavernier (NASA Educational Technology Specialist), Hector Alvarez (Two Bit Circus Creative Director), Brett Doar (celebrated Rube Goldberg machinist), Martin Tomasz (analog/radio/mixed-signal engineer), and Heather Doyle (S.T.E.A.M. Innovation Fair Creator).
This regional competition features tiers of middle school, high school, and university squads in a battle of Rube Goldberg machines – overly engineered contraptions that achieve a simple end-game through the most complicated (and humorous) paths imaginable. Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize winning inventor and cartoonist Rube Goldberg, these contraptions inspire creativity and innovation.
For more information, visit SantaMonicaPier.org. Search for the official event hashtag #SteamMachines.
S.T.E.A.M Machines
Innovation Fair & Rube Goldberg Contest
Sunday • March 4 • 11:00am
200 Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, CA 90401
About The Rube Goldberg Curious Contraption Contest
Rube Goldberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author. He was the inspiration for the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, which challenges participants to make a complicated machine to perform a simple task. The contest is an annual international competition that challenges teams of students from middle school to college age to compete in building the most elaborate and hilarious Rube Goldberg Machine.
About the Santa Monica Pier Corporation
The Santa Monica Pier Corporation (SMPC) is a non-profit, public benefit corporation dedicated to preserving and enhancing the Santa Monica Pier experience for all visitors.
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