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, ...

DEVILLE, La. (AP) — Roller-coaster physics was a hands-on science project at Buckeye High School. Lacey Hoosier’s two advanced placement physics classes built roller coasters from wood, rubber and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ROCK FALLS, Ill. (AP) - No angles went uninspected. All funnels were fully affixed. Loop-de-loops were secured. Meanwhile, students put the finishing creative touches on their roller-coasters Jan. 6 ...

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 ...