Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students in an eighth-grade engineering class at Pleasantville Middle School constructed roller coasters using marbles, paper, ...

How do you get 135 third, fourth and fifth graders to learn and apply Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion? Have them design and build paper roller coasters. The floor of the Juneau Arts and Culture ...

Seniors at the Hueneme High School Academy of Engineering and Design in Oxnard, Calif., got a chance to test their real-world engineering smarts in a project recently finished to research and build ...

CHARLESTON — Building a roller coaster is a “huge deal,” and the biggest challenge is turning a design into the real thing, Cameron Baer says. The Charleston Middle School eighth-grader was one of ...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — A roller coaster can be a ride of hair-raising screams and pure fun. Building one is another story. Fifth- and sixth-graders in Carol Miller’s gifted education class at ...

WALKER, Mich. — Students at Kenowa Hills Middle School hosted their paper roller coaster showcase on Friday. The showcase was the first of its kind since STEM teacher Steve Feutz started the project.

The Ivy Center for Education recently hosted a “Staying on Track with Roller Coaster Building” event. Sederick Charles Rice, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at ...

Students in an eighth-grade engineering class at Pleasantville Middle School constructed roller coasters using marbles, paper, popsicle sticks, tape and their critical-thinking skills. The young ...