Let’s meet the engineers and schools taking part…

The Engineers

Sarah Hunt | Rolls-Royce PLC

I design parts for aeroplane engines and model them to calculate how long they will last in an engine – they are made from really special materials called ‘single crystals’.

Masha Folk | Cambridge University

I try to make jet engines eat less fuel by making the turbine inside work better.

Mark Catherall | Canopy Simulations

I simulate Formula 1 cars so that we can predict what the best design and setup will be for each race.

Leon Wechie | Leeds University

Finding out whether chemical oils and a material surface like one another, and exploring why and just how intimate their relationship is.

Dominique Anderson | Science Technology Facilities Council

Making motors move with software.

Andrei Ilie | Jaguar Land Rover

I make sure that cars can be put together from lots of tiny parts and write the instructions needed to do that; its kind of like putting Lego together.

The Schools

• Arbroath Academy, Arbroath
• Arbroath High School, Arbroath
• Bebington High Sports College, Merseyside
• Herne Bay High School, Kent
• Horbury Academy, Yorkshire
• Howell’s School, Cardiff
• Loreto Grammar School, Cheshire
• Notre Dame High School, Glasgow
• Oxford High School GDST, Oxfordshire
• St Paul’s Academy, London
• Standish Community High School, Lancashire
• Stockley Academy, Hillingdon
• Surrey Square Primary School, London
• The Cornelius Vermuyden School, Essex
• The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College, Wiltshire
• Woodchurch High School, Merseyside

This zone is funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering.