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.

MOLINE -- A trio of middle school students have figured out a way to make their homemade mouse trap car go all the way to Florida. Thirteen-year-old twin sisters Alyssa and Olivia Ray paired up with ...

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 ...