Classrooms across the country created the coolest, fastest amusement park rides. Many entered and 5 were judged by Cedar Point ride engineers and K'NEX designers to be the best! Check out the winners below!
2011 Contest Winners
St. Raphael Catholic School Bay Village, OH Grade 7
This thrilling 5 foot tall twisted roller coaster runs around a mighty 4 foot tall ball tower. Three cars run on the roller coaster's spiraling track and six balls roll along the ball tower's five unique paths. The Rock and Roll..er Coaster Ball Tower is made up of thousands of pieces from different K'NEX sets, including: Serpents Spiral Coaster...read more
Marshall Middle School Wexford, PA Grade 7
For the K'NEX Cedar Point Contest, we built a K'NEX inverted roller coaster styled after the company B&M. Our roller coaster has many elements including a vertical loop, an immelmann loop, a cobra roll, and a wingover. The roller coaster also has a station building, and working brakes that bring the coaster to a complete stop...read more
Fairbanks Local Schools Milford Center, OH Grades 11 & 12
The Juggernaut. Truly a coaster to be marveled. But while the ride may be one of a kind, it has many key elements that all roller coasters must abide to; physics. Now, on that note, let us cover one of the most basic standbys of any roller coaster you'll ever see, the hill. I mean, really, what is a coaster without a hill? The answer is a train. But what we've constructed is far from any train...read more
Bellevue High School Bellevue, OH Grades 9 - 12
This dueling rollercoaster used components from 5 K'nex sets to make one megacoaster, built on a scale of 1:100 (1cm = 1m). Similar to the Gemini, each track is the same length, 959.1m. But that is where the similarity ends, with significantly different rides...read more
Glenfield Middle School Montclair, NJ Grades 6 & 7
The New York Air Ball Roller Coaster is like no other roller coaster in the world! Our passengers will ride in a spherically-shaped vehicle, a transparent ball, rather than in a roller coaster car. Using a telescope shaped joy stick that is mounted inside the Air Ball gives the virtual experience of zooming through a life-sized arcade game. Using the telescope...read more
