Shawn Jordan
Shawn Jordan
Shawn Jordanis an American professional mixed martial artist who formally competed in the UFC's Heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2009, Jordan has also formerly competed for Strikeforce and Bellator...
award basically choice competition created fight fully means mechanical player song steps win
In one part of our machine, we used 100 steps just to play the Purdue fight song because we basically created a fully working mechanical player piano. To win the competition is great, but it means so much also to win the People's Choice award because that means we entertained people, too.
building challenges feeling great hours lost machine six spent total weeks work
It's a great feeling because we had a lot of challenges this year. The building where we usually work on our Rube Goldberg machine collapsed, so we lost about six weeks of production. We spent a total of about 4,000 hours building our machine.
amazed competition designed eighth higher involved level machines played quality year
This is the eighth year I've been involved in the Rube Goldberg contest, and the competition is played at a much higher level than when I began. The machines are better designed and use many more steps. I am just amazed at how the quality of the machines has increased.
building collapsed middle stepped team using year
This year has been different. The building that we've been using for a while collapsed in November, right in the middle of our season. We also had a real young team that really stepped up to the challenge.