Minnesota High School Science Olympiad. -- Competing in the ìMission Possibleî section, Jacob Haqqímisra, 17 and Nate Twedten, 17, fine tune their machine. The object here was to catapault a ball with a set up that used a number of scientific

Minnesota High School Science Olympiad. -- Competing in the ìMission Possibleî section, Jacob Haqqímisra, 17 and Nate Twedten, 17, fine tune their machine. The object here was to catapault a ball with a set up that used a number of scientific processes, in other words, a Rube Goldberg device. They gained points for the number of scientific processes used.(Photo By DUANE BRALEY/Star Tribune via Getty Images)