PUPILS spent a day working out how to move a tin of beans.
More than 130 youngsters, aged 12 and 13, at Our Lady and St Bede's School, in Stockton, were working on a engineering task.
They were divided into teams and each team was given identical sets of components including wheels and electrical implements.
Each team then had to build a contraption to move the tin of beans with the team taking the beans the furthest, winning the competition.
Leslie Lindo, school administrator, helped to organise the event. She said: "We had 14 professional engineers in the school and companies from across Teesside donated parts.
"The idea is to get our pupils to be enthusiastic about engineering and, judging by the concentration and hard work they've put in, it seems to be working. We've done this for a few years and it's a success."
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