In the spring and summer of 2020, a college student built a working roller coaster in his grandparent’s yard. The student, Elliot Ryan, returned from college in March 2020 when schools closed because ...

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 ...

Guidelines for designing coasters don’t reflect the latest science about what types of movement the brain can withstand.

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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 ...

Some become parents by choice, and such parents give their children the best lives possible. How else would you describe an Ohio couple who built a roller coaster in their backyard for their kids?