By day they're mild-mannered senior students from Sydney's Sutherland Shire, but by night Megan Kirk, Josh Crawford, Laura Kirk, Chris Jenkins and Evan Pignatelli are marketing managers, design and manufacturing engineers working to build the fastest miniature F1 racing car in the world.
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| Engadine High School students Megan Kirk, Josh Crawford, Laura Kirk, Chris Jenkins and Evan Pignatelli displaying their racing car model. |
Working under the name Motion Racing, the Engadine High School team's mission is to compete in F1 in Schools, the world's largest science, technology, engineering and mathematics competition.
The program involves over nine million students from 17,000 schools in 31 nations with Formula 1 supremo Berni Ecclestone one of the competition's co-patrons.
The victory in May was thanks to the dedication of all team members who built their high performance car from scratch and some expertise shared by people like ANSTO engineer Samuel Batty.
They will be heading to Texas in the United States in November to compete against the best schools in the world. Learn more about their upcoming trip on their website.
We wish them all the best and look forward to catching up with the team on their return.
Published: 16/10/2013