With help from Bob Gaster, Rebecca Rosenboom tightens an axle to a CD that will serve as a wheel for the mousetrap car she is making at John Deere Middle School in Moline on Saturday morning. Mr.

Gifft Hill School student Kaitlyn Cummings has been selected as one of 12 finalists worldwide to compete in the annual Monaco Mouse Trap Car Grand Prix. Kaitlyn will travel to Monaco with physics ...

Building a better mousetrap wasn’t the assignment, but building a better mousetrap-powered car was. More than 20 students in automotive instructor Fred Pich’s Houston County Career Technical Center ...

ROCK ISLAND - If it's possible to build a car that will travel 25 meters using only a mouse trap for an engine, a group of students at Washington Junior High School in Rock Island will build it. The ...