

“Ruth’s Rubes” Medal Three Years Running
From its first award, the Ruth Keeler Memorial Library’s “Ruth’s Rubes” became a legacy team with the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest and...


Applying a Band-Aid
The 2017 Ruth's Rubes team is out to create a Rube Goldberg machine that applies a band-aid.


North Salem's Ruth’s Rubes win the Rube Goldberg Legacy Award
Ruth's Rubes, Ruth Keeler Memorial Library's Rube Goldberg Machine Competition team - won the Rube Goldberg Machine Competition Legacy...
A Theme is Required
The competion is 1 week and 3 days and the contraption is coming along nicely. We have about 30 steps (connected and unconnected) and...
Notes From The Eighth Meeting
Ruth's Rubes met for our eighth meeting on March 22, 2016. It was a regularly scheduled meeting and we had an overall productive meeting,...
The Advantage And Disadvantage Of A Control Board
During the seventh meeting of Ruth's Rubes we decided that a control board would be a useful asset to our machine. A control board would...
Notes From The Seventh Meeting
We have now begin recording our meeting notes on this website. Here are the meeting notes from our seventh meeting which occured on...
Top Three Elements
Here at Ruth's Rubes we have been working for several weeks on various elements. While we have been focusing on qualities such as...
75 Steps (Can We Make It?)
75 Steps can sound easy but it is far from it. Each step is defined as the transfer of energy from one element from another and...