Prior to the splash-filled fun at the Normandy High School natatorium, students in teams of three to four designed, created, tested and perfected cardboard canoe prototypes. On race day, the real ...

The boats taking part in Saturday’s regatta in Henderson weren’t exactly the seaworthy sort known to last for years. But like the more-sturdy watercraft, these boats, too, can bring much joy. In the ...

When Robert Gair invented the cardboard box in 1879, he likely had no idea folks would eventually disassemble his creation to make boats. Thanks to Gair, folks have been floating — and sinking — ...

It's one way to find out if your ideas hold water: Design a boat, build it out of cardboard and duct tape, then hop in and see if it sinks. That's what happens each year at the Mike Cauley Cardboard ...

The crowd-favorite Cardboard Boat Race is returning to the Coast Guard Festival in 2024. The competition, which is free to enter, will take place on Saturday, July 27. Competitors are challenged to ...

ROCKFORD — Rockford Public School (RPS) students put their engineering skills to the test on the water at Levings Lake. RPS students in the production academy engineering pathway competed in the ...

Elizabeth Engle, left, and Cameron Spencer, right, approach the finish line of the Shark in the Park Cardboard Boat races held Saturday at Washington Park Pool. The boat won Best Design. Brothers ...

SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. — For the first time since the pandemic, Hudson Crossing Park hosted their annual cardboard boat races at Fort Hardy Park. “This is our sixteenth year of boat races, and we’re ...

Some RPS 205 students got to put their building skills to the test to see if they had what it takes to build a boat with just cardboard and some duct tape. It was all for the third annual Cardboard ...