In February 2012, The Dispatch asked engineers and designers at Battelle, Edison Welding Institute and the Center for Automotive Research at Ohio State University to design and build the fastest ...

Mason McCarty, 14, tried to stay calm. McCarty had just finished second in the middle school racing portion of Saturday’s Clark Public Utilities’ Solar Car Challenge at Hudson’s Bay High School in ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The “second-greatest spectacle in racing” returns to the Indiana State Museum just in time for a once-in-a-generation event that will darken the skies across central Indiana.

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A metal track helped to power more than 30 handmade cars featured in the annual Scout Pack 18 Pinewood Derby Jan. 26 at Christ Church in Winnetka. The aluminum 48-foot track was purchased by Winnetka ...

LAKE WYNONAH — Twenty Scouts from Cub Scout Pack 651 showed off their hand-crafted derby cars during the annual Pinewood Derby Race. Each year, the Scouts are tasked with making a freewheeling car out ...

As a boy scout properly acculturated into the DIY philosophy, [Adam] really wanted to get his hands on the new Inventing merit badge. The merit badge required solving a problem, so of course a ...

Westminster Hall at the Village Church of Northbrook, which has hosted pancake breakfasts and Cub Scout Pinewood Derby events over the years, became a community destination again on Saturday, Feb. 11.

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POTTSVILLE — A Pine Grove cub scout’s racer streaked to victory in the annual Pinewood Derby at Fairlane Village Mall. Jayden Witherow fended off competition from about 30 Cub Scouts entered in the ...