Pupils at an Orkney school are in the running for a prestigious renewable energy award.
The team from Sanday Community School have made the final of the Junior Saltire Award after designing and building their own floating wave energy generator.
The youngsters will now get a chance to put their design through its paces next month at Edinburgh University’s FloWave testing tank – the worlds most sophisticated ocean simulator which can recreate multi-directional waves and fast tidal flows.
Technical subjects teacher Carolyn Dixon said: “Here at Sanday School we are surrounded by the sea – we know only too well its power. Designing and building a device to try and harness that power involves our students in a highly relevant and complex engineering project where they can develop as a team as well as in technical expertise.
“We keep entering the Junior Saltire Prize because this competition allows us to address urgent real world engineering challenges with our students, challenges I hope they will go on to work on in adult life.
“Designing, developing, making and adapting our device, ‘Rock and Roll’, to make it work is a huge learning curve for all of us and we can’t wait to see it in the water at FloWave in Edinburgh.”
More than 200 team from around Scotland entered the competition which is funded by the Scottish Government.
The competition is split into three age groups: P5-P7, S1-P3 and S4-P6, with teams of four having to submit an initial design brief followed by evidence of their finished model.
Sanday has been nominated for the A1-S3 category.