Fourth grade races cars made of recyclables, with students winning for fastest and longest runs

By Marco Gracie and Lila Caminiti

COLONIAL PLAYGROUND — All the fourth grade classes raced cars April 15 they made out of recyclables in the project called Recycle Raceway.

The winners for 4C were Jack Murphy for speed (0.90 seconds) and Brett Bober for distance (4- feet, 1 inch).

4M’s speed winner was Logan Mueller, whose racer clocked in at 0.97 seconds. Matthew Alexander was 4M’s distance winner after running to 13 feet, 8 inches.

The 4G winner was Antonio Mollura for both categories of speed and distance.

Antonio said some materials he used were tops of play dough cups for wheels, and an egg carton as the body of the car.

The prizes for the winners were Hotwheel cars.

Some of the cars were called into question for not using recyclables, but were still very successful. Some ideas to improve performance were putting in heavy objects such as rocks and sticks. These worked very well.

The cars recycled their way to the end of the course.

This story also appears on the Colonial Times website.