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    Meet the 17-Year-Old, Award-Winning, Rube Goldberg Parts Manufacturer

    by Yvonne Bang Apr 30, 2015 3 minutes

    ast Tuesday afternoon, 17-year-old Tommy George dragged the remains of a Rube Goldberg machine into his teacher’s classroom. Designed and built by Tommy and the other members of his team, named “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” after the Marvel comic, it used a collection of insulation tubing, cardboard, Styrofoam, wires, and a Nerf gun to wipe a whiteboard clean. The Agents had entered it into the White Plains, New York regional division of the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine

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