By Ryan McCarthy

The man whose discoveries inspired the vehicle’s name couldn’t appear Friday – but 160 students were there with machines powered by balloons, mouse traps and other devices.

Newton Scooters, named for the English physicist and mathematician Issac Newton who lived from 1643-1727 and helped lead the scientific revolution of his era, moved on the floor of the classroom where Alyssa Weytjens teaches physics and chemistry to eighth-graders at B. Gale Wilson School.

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