West Essex High School Students Build Roller Coasters

Students in several physics classes are forming groups and creating roller coasters as part of their semester physics conservation and energy projects.

The students are learning that a roller coaster "is a complex machine that is a work of art as much as it is a physical structure."

The assignment asked the students to build functional roller coasters out of paper, cardboard etc. and then demonstrate how the roller coaster works in class using a marble.

Students in Taciana Barros' class were creative using a variety of materials, including candy, and building roller coasters with different themes, such as, "A Day at the Beach" and "Around the World."