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Video News: Watch St. Olaf win national Rube Goldberg contest

By Kari VanDerVeen
March 30, 2009

See the St. Olaf team that won the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest this weekend run their machine three times for judges at Purdue University and celebrate as they're crowned national champions.

St. Olaf, a first-time entrant in the competition, was the only liberal arts college competing and the only school in the contest without an engineering program. The Oles' machine took 239 steps to break a light bulb and replace it with 150 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that spell out "St. Olaf."

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Contact Kari VanDerVeen at 507-786-3970 or vanderve@stolaf.edu.