A Tioughnioga Riverside Academy student stands on a chair to position a chute on the Rube Goldeberg machine he is constructing with teammates as another student watches.

TRA Students attend Engineering Days at B-T BOCES

Whitney Point CSD

December 2, 2025

Our Whitney Point Eagles at the Tioughnioga Riverside Academy gave their STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - skills a workout during Engineering Days at Broome-Tioga BOCES on November 19 and 20, 2025.

Middle School Engineering Day - November 19

A total of 17 TRA students in grades 6 - 8 enjoyed the middle school engineering day event . They were tasked with creating a complex method to transfer energy from objects to have a ball land on a target. Working as teams, our groups brainstormed, designed and executed a way to slow energy transfers with random objects. 

Elementary Engineering Day – November 20

We also sent five talented teams of third through fifth graders to the 2025 Elementary Engineering Day. Students were challenged to design and build their own Rube Goldberg machines - creative contraptions engineered to accomplish a simple task through the most steps possible. Teams worked collaboratively to plan, test, and refine their designs, incorporating as many energy transfers as they could imagine.

During the event, each group presented their machine to a panel of judges, explaining their process and highlighting the science behind their energy transfers.

This annual event at BOCES provided two exciting days of problem-solving, innovation and hands-on engineering for our young creators!

Tioughnioga Riverside Academy students make a team of five to compete in Middle School Engineering Day at Broome-Tioga BOCES on November 19, 2025.

A T R A team of four students in grades six through eight stand around their Rube Goldberg creation for the Middle School Engineering Day at Broome-Tioga BOCES on November 19, 2025.

Another team of four students from T R A in grades 6 though 8 stand by the rudimentary machine they are beginning to build for Middle School Engineering Day at Broome Tioga BOCES.

T R A students in the process of building their Rube Goldberg machine as an Engineering Day judge watches.

Another T R A team holds some of their materials as they build their Rube Goldberg machine during Middle School Engineering Day.

More Tioughnioga Riverside Academy students in grades 6 through 8 work together to build their machine for the engineering day competition.

A T R A student positions a chute for her teams Rube Goldberg machine.

Two T R A students competing in the Elementary Engineering Day competition at Broome-Tioga BOCES discuss the placement of a paper cup on their design.

A T R A student holds up a tube that her team is taping to a large section of cardboard to construct their Rube Goldberg machine.

Four Tioughnioga Riverside Academy students competing in the Elementary Engineering Day competition stand by their design as it is in mid-construction.

Four more T R A students on a different team with the beginning of their Rube Goldberg machine.

Four T R A students on a different team with the machine they are building for the Elementary Engineering Day competition on November 20, 2025.

T R A teammates working on their machine.

A final team of T R A students in grades 3 through 4 with the start of their Rube Goldberg machine.

Two T R A teammates work together on constructing their Rube Goldberg machine for the Elementary Engineering Day at Broome Tioga BOCES.