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02/01-- Josh Hurst, a senior from Lafayette, Ind., celebrates a successful run of the winning entry in Purdue University's Rube Goldberg Machine contest Saturday on the West Lafayette campus. Built by the Purdue chapter of the Society of Mechanical Engineers, the contraption, called "New York and The Big Apple," utilized more than 40 steps to select, clean and peel an apple. The team will represent Purdue in the national contest on April 7 at West Lafayette High School. The annual competition, inspired by cartoonist Rube
Goldberg's work, requires students to design a machine that uses a complex process to complete a simple task. (Purdue University News Service Photo by David Umberger)
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