I don't think a lot of people know what a Goldberg machine is from the top of their head. No worries, you'll soon find out. But I am certain than everyone has seen at least one of them, probably in cartoons (as they are quite difficult to build in real life).
By definition a Goldberg machine is a liberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted fashion. This may be hard to imagine, but fortunately I've got some visual aids. Here is an episode of Mythbusters where they construct a Goldberg machine. By the way, the machines got their name after a cartoonist named Rube Goldberg who used to draw such contraptions in his comics.
My call to you is to do some thinking and come up your own Goldberg machine. Then you'll have to build it (I recommend ordinary everyday object as building blocks). You should use the help of your friends too, the more the merrier anyway :) But why not broadcast the whole project? It would be like a Behind-the-scenes sneak preview. People always like watching something exciting happening. They can make suggestions and give you tips, some might even have prior experience.
The main event is still the actual execution of the machine. If you look around, you can find quite a few of Goldberg machines' videos, but you can make it with a twist. It would be really exciting to film the first run live. This way the audience can partake in the suspense of seeing if it all works out exactly as planned.
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