The Energy Coast University Technical College has been selected as a finalist in the Young Engineer School of the Year 2017 competition, after 600 entrants were whittled down to six.
A team of four students and a teacher will travel to Birmingham for the Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair in March to compete in a final engineering challenge against five other schools.
“We are immensely proud of this achievement,” said principal Cherry Tingle.
“It validates all efforts of our staff, partners and students to deliver innovative, engineering-specialist education.”
The Big Bang Fair is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people in the UK.
Finalists were selected based on the strength of their student engineering projects, their curriculum and how students are prepared for careers in engineering.
The UTC’s bid was backed by its trip to CERN, in Switzerland, winning the Royal Navy competition Operation Antarctica and providing STEM activities to local schools.
“This is a fantastic achievement for a school which has been open less than three years,” said chair of governors Barbara Stephens. “It is a tribute to the hard work of the staff and students. Good luck to the team for the final in March.”
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