YOUNG engineers have struck gold by winning national recognition for a potentially life-saving project.
Alec Cavell-Taylor, Patrick Moon, Jonathan Tanner and John Ashton achieved the highest accolade in CREST, a UK-wide award scheme to support students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and maths.
The challenge began for the Ripon Grammar School boys early last year when they were set their task by international engineering company Siemens to design and prototype a train detection system.
After 70 hours of work they came up with software that enabled them to detect a train up to two kilometres away. Coupled with a warning unit, it could successfully detect and notify pedestrians of approaching trains.
“It was a great experience and we would all highly recommended it,” said Patrick.
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