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 ...

Instead of building a better mousetrap, students constructed 1- to 2-foot-long cars that used the energy ... applied her lessons to design a 3-ounce balsa bridge that supported 176 pounds.

Paper towers to hold a can of pop, as well as bottle rockets and cars powered with the energy made from a mouse trap are projects undertaken by Amherst Junior High School students in a new Design ...

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But the competition isn’t just about how far the car will travel. That’s only one of four areas that teams are judged on. They also are judged on design drawing of the mousetrap car ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - Young engineers took on the community at large during this year's Mousetrap Car Showdown at the Wiesbaden Middle School Dec. 6. Some 20 teams including middle school seventh ...

“Who wants to play ‘The Life Size Mousetrap’ – and sign a waiver?” a big top voice boomed across the Maker Faire at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, this summer ...