Welcome to Rub3 Against Th3 Machin3 3: Rub3 of th3 Plan3t of th3 Ap3s. The year: 2026. San Francisco. James Franco is nowhere to be found. The Apes are swinging their way over the bridge like that one scene from the trailer. You don't know what happens next, because you haven't seen the movie. Of course you haven't, no one has. But that's OK. You're armed. You're armed with duct tape, WD-40, rubber bands, marbles, wood blocks, string, and a whole lot of Lego. This is it. You've been training for it all your lives. In 2012 you built a machine that launched a marble down a track. In 2013 you built another machine, that also launched a marble, down another, different track. This year, in 2014, we're going to launch a third marble down a third, entirely new track. Join us at MIT Splash to defeat the Apes and protect the Planet from their Rise... no, their Rube. Rube Against The Machine 3: Rube of the Planet of the Apes

HEY GANG! REMEMBER ME? We're doing RUBE AGAINST THE MACHINE again. Last year, you all built a big, (somewhat) working Rube Goldberg Machine. If you don't know what it is, go look it up. THIS YEAR, We're gonna build two of them. And they're gonna each propel a racecar down a hallway. And we're gonna split y'all up into teams and have you work on competing machines, and then they'll race the cars or something. It'll be dope.

Get your duct tapes and strap on your hard hats! (TF2 doesn't count.) We're gonna build us a gosh-darn Rube Goldberg machine. (Dunno what that is? Go look it up, dang it!) We're gonna have a bunch of crates full of raw supplies, some marbles, and entirely too much imagination. Come help us break an intergalactic record for highest (number of steps)/(value of task accomplished) ratio! Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to haphazardly put stuff on walls and tables and duct tape it in place. To wait with baited breath as tiny marbles carry kinetic energy askew and astray asunder our structure. To boldly split infinitives. Only a few will survive the whole process.