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 voice boomed ...

Armed with mousetrap cars, ping pong ball catapults and knowledge of reflective light physics students from West Hancock, Forest City, Belmond-Klemme, Garner-Hayfield, and Corwith-Wesley-Luvern ...

Muscatine High School student Taylor Sheppeard gets some assistance with her mouse trap car from physics teacher Kelsey Mohapp Friday morning at MHS. Junior Drake Winter waits to see how close his ...

Schools compete in everything these days. From sports to music to dance to math, your local school probably has teams practicing for battle. The competitive spirit extends to science and engineering, ...

Their school assignment was building a better mousetrap racecar, one that would travel farther than other physics classmates. But while there were winners in this competition, it was — after all — a ...

In Ashford, the local car industry doesn’t need a multi-billion dollar bailout to keep rolling. About five bucks and magnetic tape will do. Students in Fred Pich’s automotive technology class recently ...