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With a new term underway, Maggie Philbin, co-founder of TeenTech, and teacher Margaret Craw explain how the TeenTech Awards are helping schools to change attitudes to science, engineering and technology

Maggie Philbin, CEO & co-founder, TeenTech

Now in its sixth year, the annual TeenTech Awards, held at the Royal Society in London before the summer, saw innovations created by pupils from Scottish schools recognised by a panel of industry and celebrity judges.

Dalziel High School from Motherwell collected the People’s Choice Award for its re-imagining of the black box flight recorder, while pupils from Notre Dame High School in Greenock, and St Columba’s High School in Inverclyde, were named as finalists.

In total, 269 schools registered to take part in the awards, resulting in more than 1,500 students from schools across the UK and Europe getting involved in the annual initiative that challenges young people aged 11 to 19 to tackle key societal and environmental issues using the power of science, technology and engineering.

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