A group of students from St.Eunans College have scooped a major national award at an innovative new competition aimed at challenging secondary school students to design build and race their own miniature Formula One cars. 
Sigma Racing, St Eunan’s Colleges won “Best newcomer” at the National finals in Griffith College in Dublin.
The boys qualified through the regional finals in GMIT in Castlebar in March before moving on to compete in the nationals.
F1 in Schools is a global multi-disciplinary competition that challenges secondary school students to design, build and race miniature compressed-air powered balsa wood Formula One cars.
The competition inspires students to use IT to learn about physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, leadership, teamwork, media skills and financial strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative, competitive and exciting way.
Students from all over Ireland battled it out at the regional and national finals of the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge. Teams go head-to-head, testing the speed and engineering quality of their model F1 racers.
Competition is fast and furious on the 20-metre track, with the model cars reaching scale speeds of up to 350km/h. F1 in Schools Challenge is not all about speed, competing teams are also judged on the quality of their engineering, graphic design, resource management, portfolio, media skills, handling of sponsorship and verbal presentation of their work.
The boys would like to thanks all their sponsors as without them this project would not have been possible.