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 — ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — Teams from Quad Cities area high schools and colleges competed Friday, May 13 in a special kind of design competition at the Bettendorf Middle Park Lagoon. The Cardboard Boat ...

Students from Bettendorf, Pleasant Valley, West Liberty, Riverdale, and Moline High Schools will test cardboard boat designs at a regatta cardboard boat competition on Friday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 ...

The two "smokestacks" on the back of the Colonel Crawford 1 boat attracted some attention. "It's the Titanic — hopefully it doesn't sink," a girl shouted as its three creators, all Colonel Crawford ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — In the Mining City, it's sink or swim and for some it's a little bit of both. Students taking Intro to Engineering came together in groups of three to test their cardboard boats in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardboard boxes look pretty much the same. But when they are used to create a boat, the designs are anything but uniform. That was evident Aug. 1 when the Grandview Heights Parks and Recreation ...

One of the new events added to the 79th annual Hutchinson Jaycee Water Carnival was Community Day’s cardboard boat races Saturday at West River Park. Fourteen teams accepted the challenge to design ...

Children test their cardboard boat designs during the inaugural KidsFest Cardboard Boat Race on Friday, June 10, 2022, at the Marshall Rec Center in Huntington.

EaglePicher Technologies is a leading producer of batteries and energy devices for the defense, aerospace, medical, commercial, grid energy storage, oil and gas industries. And the engineers make ...