After thinking about a few projects, we decided on a mouse trap car. Many of you will recall making a ... with awards given for speed, distance and accuracy. Our car cost less than $3 to make, ...

The mousetrap cars in Mr. Hedden’s 8th grade science class, that’s what! Have you ever raced a mousetrap car? Well, Telstar Middle School eighth graders in Mr. Hedden’s science class have!

Its role in the game was to trap a plastic mouse. Because this is real life, and the Henry Ford Museum, its role was to crush a junked white Hyundai. “It’s the grand finale,” Perez said.

In the class, they learn the basics of engineering design, including how to use software, how to troubleshoot, and how to look at projects form a global lens. One of the three major labs held during ...

About 115 students from eight schools gathered in Grand Island on Friday for the SkillsUSA Middle School West Conference. Students from Louisville, Hastings, Orchard, Sterling, Elmwood-Murdock ...

MOLINE -- A trio of middle school students have figured out a way to make their homemade mouse trap car go all the way to Florida. Thirteen-year-old twin sisters Alyssa and Olivia Ray paired up ...

At the project's conclusion, the students had to write reports on how they built their car, why it worked or why it didn't and what they might have done differently. "I thought it was challenging.

Ever wanted to turn your car into the world’s largest computer mouse? YouTube tinkerer William Osman decided to do just that, helping Simone Giertz turn her yellow “Cheese Louise” electric ...

Mousetrap cars race through DPJH halls. Feb 13, 2007 ...

More than 400 students, teachers and parents attended the STEM challenge at Kingscliff High School recently to test the distance of each mousetrap powered car, with the winning team creating a ...

Its role in the game was to trap a plastic mouse. Because this is real life, and the Henry Ford Museum, its role was to crush a junked white Hyundai. “It’s the grand finale,” Perez said.

If the crooked blue staircase, colorful crank and dangling bathtub looked familiar, well, that’s the point. “Who wants to play ‘The Life Size Mousetrap’ – and sign a waiver?” a big top ...