Around South County: South River's Education Expo showcases student talent, creativity

Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a newspaper cartoonist for much of his life. It earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1948. He was most famous for his depictions of complex machines that execute a simple task.

He died in 1970, but his name lives on because of a popular engineering contest for high school students which bears his name.

South River High School's honors pre-engineering class spent months constructing a Rube Goldberg machine. Last Saturday in Edgewater, the club brought their machine out to demonstrate to the public at the first-ever Education Expo.

The exposition was put on by all of the schools in the South...