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, ...

Mount Carmel Academy's physics classes participated in a roller coaster design challenge using the concepts of forces, motion and energy. The roller coaster needed to have a "thrill factor" to attract ...

With nothing but paper, tape, and a marble as a test vehicle, engineering students at Tyler ISD’s Career and Technology Center put their designs to the test, building roller coasters filled with loops ...

Union middle schoolers test roller coasters in lab Sixth-grade science students design and test roller coasters in their labs.

When I’ve interviewed roller coaster engineers about their profession, I received similar answers to the question: “Is this the only job you’ve ever really wanted?” The answer is some version of, ...

Amusement parks around the world are locked in a race to build the fastest, tallest and most terrifying roller coasters imaginable. Engineers are pushing the limits of speed, height and G-forces, ...

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 ...