VIDEO: Check Out St. Olaf College's Winning Rube Goldberg Machine

After failing to place last year,  associate professor of physics Jason Engbrecht said his team’s win on March 31 in the 25th national  Machine Contest was nothing short of sweet.

“For me, the win was, of course, great,” Engbrecht told Northfield Patch following the competition. “After all of that time, I just wanted the machine to run the way we all knew it could run so the team could get that feeling of showing to a large crowd of people how amazing the machine was.”

The 191-step machine impressed with a flawless run that ended with a balloon being inflated and then popped by a laser.

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