Kennedy’s Junkyard Machine (Boys)

Event Year: 2025
Event Location: Cocoa-FL
Competition: Energy Transfer Machine
Division: 6-8
School: Kennedy Middle
Team Name: Panther Kinetix
Project Name: Kennedy Junkyard Machine (Boys)
Team Size: 4

Kennedy Middle School’s

Panther Kinetix

Theme: Anything lying around, junk, scrap, trash.

Team Members: Xavier S. (8th), Anderson W. (8th), Grayson R. (8th), Dylan L. (8th)

Final Step: Make the Seesaw go back and forth 14 times.

ETM Run Video:

ETM Explanation:

The Chain Reaction Chronicles

15 Steps Total

Step 1: Trash Can

Materials: Plastic trash can, wooden board

Function: Trash can with board in it falls onto a lever.

Step 2: Lever

Materials: 4 wooden boards, one tire

Function: trash can falls onto lever, lever pushes tire.

Step 3: Wooden Dominoes

Materials: 3 Wooden boards, chair

Function: Long board falls, hits three small boards into each other

Step 4: Ramp

Materials: Two boards, tape roll, string, small block, wedge

Function: Tape rolls down boards, triggered by wedge, pulled by string attached to block

Step 5: Wooden Lever

Materials: One long board, one small board

Function: Small board, pushed by tape roll, hits long board.

Step 6: Tire

Materials: Tire, wood block

Function: Long board hits the tire off of the block, the tire rolls into the dominoes

Step 7: Wooden Dominoes

Materials: Two Blocks, tape roll

Function: Blocks fall into each other, knocking over tape roll

Step 8: Ramp

Materials: Bin lid, tape roll

Function: Tape rolls down bin lid

Step 9: Falling Block

Materials: Tape, string, block, tape roll

Function: The tape roll hits the block, pulling the string and activating the next step

Step 10: Ramp

Materials: 3D-printed device, marble, string, bin

Function: The string pulls the 3D-printed device’s lever, which releases the marble down the bin.

Step 11: Block Fall

Materials: Block, tape, string

Function: The marble rolls down the bin, hitting the block, pulling the string.

Step 12:

Materials: String, tape

Function: The string is pulled, unwinding the taped end from the other string attached to the ceiling.

Step 13: Weight Slide

Materials: Weight, string, tape

Function: After the tape is removed, the weight slides down the string.

Step 14: Ramps

Materials: Long cardboard tubes, marble, metal piece

Function: When the weight hits th metal piece (which hits the marble), the marble rolls down a set of ramps

Final Step: Make the Seesaw go back and forth 14 times.

Materials: Seesaw Halloween decoration

Function: The marble hits the decoration, activating it.