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 ...

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 ...

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A 19-year-old engineering student has built a working roller-coaster in the backyard of his parents' home in Thornhill, Ont. Shortly after his Grade 10 year, David Chesney began tinkering around with ...

Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work? Who invented the first ...