Over two weeks, AVI students built ramps, experimented with levers, and discovered that explaining how something works can be just as important as making it work. Here's what their latest Rube Goldberg challenges revealed about problem-solving, persistence, and hands-on STEM learning.

In Week 2 of AVI’s Rube Goldberg challenge, students moved beyond making a chain reaction work. Now their machines had a job to do, pushing students to test ideas, study cause and effect, and change their designs when something did not work as planned.

What happens when a Rube Goldberg machine does not work the first time? For Alabama Virtual Institute students, that is where some of the most important learning begins. See how students tested, revised, collaborated, and learned through Week 1 of AVI’s semester-long engineering challenge.