Female high school students took centre stage at the largest STEM event ever held in Australia: the combined National Finals of the F1inSchools Technology Challenge, Subs in Schools Technology Challenge and Land Rover 4X4 in Schools Technology Challenge.

The inaugural Subs in Schools competition was won by an all-girl team ‘Athena’ from St. Peters Girls School in Adelaide. The second and third placed teams in the ‘rookie’ (Development) class of the F1 competition were all-girls. When the three top teams stood on the podium to receive their trophies there were nine girl students and four male students.

To add to this statistic, the winning rookie F1 team and the winners of the Land Rover 4×4 Technology Challenge were managed by female students. As was the third placed F1 team in the Professional class of the F1 challenge.