Building A Better Mousetrap Car; Building A Better Mousetrap Car. October 05, 2022 by Jeff Martin. ENGR 111 is a class taken by every first-year Drexel Engineering student. In the class, they learn ...

Instead of building a better mousetrap, students constructed 1- to 2-foot-long cars that used the energy from a mousetrap’s snap to power the wheels, which were made from CDs.

Amherst Junior High School science teacher Dan Kordeleski shows off one of the mousetrap cars made by his Design I class, a new elective in its first year at the high school, during a Dec. 16 ...

STEM Students Build Mousetrap Cars, Underwater Drones Ahead of National Competition Published May 3, 2017 • Updated on May 3, 2017 at 7:03 pm Schools compete in everything these days.

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 ...

At this year's competition, teams of students were given the specifications to build a mousetrap-powered car. Nearly 300 students participated; the winners were determined by the points they ...

Intermediate and high school students from the Davenport Community School District had an opportunity to put their engineering skills to practice by competing at the ...

The mousetrap car is a vehicle students design using an actual mousetrap and other materials and the team with the car that travels the farthest fastest wins.

Inside the 0.25-inch thick hand-crafted aluminum case lurk the various solenoids, valves and electronics, and the whole thing tips the scales at 5.5lbs.

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 ...

About 175 area high school and middle school students competed in the inventive events of the mousetrap car and catapult, the concrete barge, on-site construction and bridge-building.