"Rube Goldberg Machines are compound machines that are made up of simple machines working together. These machines make a simple task as complex as possible. Fremont eighth grade students applied their knowledge of work and machines in a performance-based assessment to build their own Rube Goldberg Machine. Many students became very creative by including multiple simple machines such as inclines planes, pulleys, and different classes of levers to achieve their task of getting a tennis ball into a recycling bin without it bouncing out," said science teacher Jenn Novello.