A team of students from a Brighton school have been working with professional engineers to assess the viability of tidal power in Newhaven.
The teenagers will have their work tested by industry and education experts at an assessment day next week.
Under the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) a team of Year 12 students from Brighton, Hove and Sussex VI Form College (BHASVIC) has been working with engineers from Mott MacDonald.
They have been collaborating on a project to assess the power and energy potential at Newhaven Harbour.
Mott MacDonald is working on the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project, potentially the first of many tidal lagoons around the country being created as energy sources for the future.
The sixth formers from BHASVIC were asked to explore the power and energy potential for a scheme at Newhaven.
They will present their results at a celebration and assessment day at Brighton University next Thursday (16 April). Their project will be assessed by professionals from industry and education against a series of set criteria.
The Engineering Education Scheme aims to give students an experience of real engineering and to encourage them to consider to a related career path.
Key skills such as teamwork, communication, presentation, project management and time management are also developed.
A residential university workshop gives the students the opportunity to work closely with both their teacher and engineers from industry.
Outrageous! So sick of those loony greens and their renewable energy. We should be building a nuclear power station at Newhaven and fracking it.