Taking the next STEPS: young engineers build for the future 

Three primary school children win a national award for their planet-friendly concept car   

Third-class students Will Crawford, Georgia Green and Alex Murphy from Robertson National School, Ballintra, Co. Donegal, have been crowned national winners of Engineers Ireland’s STEPS Young Engineers Award.

Three third-class pupils from a small Donegal school, who dreamed of creating an environmentally-friendly car for the Irish climate, have scooped a top engineering award.

Alex Murphy, nine, Georgia Green and Will Crawford, both 10, are the only students in their class at Robertson NS, Ballintra, Co Donegal, though they share a classroom with 13 others because their teacher, Wendy Patterson, also teaches first and second class.