In this two-part activity, students design and build Rube Goldberg machines. This open-ended challenge employs the engineering design process and may have a pre-determined purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or let students decide the purposes.

MAC-121, Intro to CNC is a course meant to teach students the basics of CNC machining. Concepts covered include safety, measurement, measuring tools including micrometers, machine materials, CNC machine operations, CNC programing and coordinate systems, among others.

The video resource "Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course Computer Science #34" is included in the "Computer Science" course from the resources series of "Crash Course". Crash Course is a educational video series from John and Hank Green.

Refreshed with an understanding of the six simple machines; screw, wedge, pully, incline plane, wheel and axle, and lever, student groups receive materials and an allotted amount of time to act as mechanical engineers to design and create machines that can complete specified tasks. For the competition, they choose from pre-determined goal options such as: 1) dumping goldfish into a bowl, 2) popping a balloon, or 3) dropping mint candies into soda pop (creating a fizzy reaction). Students demonstrate their functioning contraptions to the class, earning points for using all six simple machines, successful transitions from one chain reaction to the next, and completion of the end goal.

This resources is an online video available in the "World Science Festival" open education series. The video "Machine Intelligence: Stronger, Faster, Smarter?" is included in the Technology section of the series.