Recycle It Right!

Event Year: 2024
Event Location: Virtual
Competition: Energy Transfer Machine
School: Timber Lakes Elementary
Team Name: Recycle Rescuers
Project Name: Recycle It Right
Team Size: 6

Our school is trying to reduce the amount of materials sent to landfills. To do this we made a machine that explains how to sort things between the recycling bin, candy wrapper bin, compost bin, and the landfill. Our final step is a tangerine traveling into a compost bin. So we made a machine that separates all four while motivating you positively. How are energy transfer works. First you have to knock weights down into the trash with paper ( where it doesn’t belong ) which causes the sink to turn on filling up a recycled water bottle making it heavy enough to cause the cardboard ramp to move up and makes the ball fall and hits a wooden board decorated as trash and goes into the very sad landfill. After it hits the “piece of trash,” the string that is connects it to a repurposed tennis container that falls and knocks over two other cans, the last one connected to a poster and a domino. That dominos sets off a chain reaction, at the end of the run a domino taped to another domino for extra weight falls off the counter and pulls down a tennis can as well as a recyclable water bottle cap that falls into the recycling bin. That will then hit another tennis ball container causing a machine to go off. When the machine is going off it is collecting yarn with a pulley that will eventually pull up a ramp and will cause the marbles inside of the ramp to go down and also pulls the wooden cylinder which hits the car that hits the candy wrapper that goes into the trash monster on the other side the marbles go down the ramp it will run into a spiral. After it’s made it through the spiral it will hit another ramp which will make the marble hit two weights that then hit an orange that will then go down a ramp with Velcro and clothing pins to slow it down that will then go into a compost bin.