WHILE most students count down the days until their summer break, five dedicated Queechy High School students are ramping up their workload.
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The girls in F1 in Schools team Golden Diversity F1 are hard at working preparing to compete in the national heat of the engineering challenge in February next year.
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor Arumugam said she and her teammates were spending recesses and lunch preparing for Penrith.
Participants are judged not only on engineering and design, but their ability to market their team, meaning there is plenty of ground to cover before the grade eight girls travel to Penrith next year.
Yara Alkhalili, 14, said Golden Diversity F1 represented the new face of engineering.
"We're from all different parts of the world, and we're an all-girls team in a very male-dominated competition," she said.
A visit from Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek on Monday was the latest in a string of high-profile meetings for the students.
Ms Plibersek was certainly impressed.
"We've seen a fantastic range of projects from a number of teams," she said.
