Goldburg machines 2

Jalen Jackson describes how a ball will knock a yo-yo from the table to lift another item during the middle steps of his team's Rube Goldburg machine taking 16 steps to drive a nail Tuesday, July 23. Jackson's team placed second in the College of Engineering's competition sponsored by AT&T to build machines with creative and complicated ways of driving a nail. Jay Chilton / The Transcript

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