Press Release

Head out to Akron’s First Night on New Year’s Eve and vote for East at Martha Avenue’s 15 Machine Rube Goldberg Project. The large-scale STEM project, held on Main Street in front of Lock 3, calls for students from 15 middle schools in Summit County to put STEM concepts into action by creating a Rube Goldberg machine* to ignite the midnight fireworks.

East at Martha Avenue is in direct competition with the other schools for prizes and would appreciate everyone’s vote at First Night!

For more information, visit www.firstnightakron.org/entertainment/the-15-machine; or call Donna Philips at 330.794.4135.

*A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The board game Mousetrap is an example of a Rube Goldberg machine.