To celebrate National Science and Engineering Week, pupils from Dyffryn Taf School Young Engineers Club travelled to London to participate in The Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair.

The three-day event, held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, gave the youngsters the opportunity to showcase the club's many achievements, including winning the Welsh Finals of the F1 in Schools Challenge.

Club members, Lewis Williams and James Newman, had a big surprise when HRH The Duke of York visited their stand to talk to them about the range of engineering competitions that the club had won over the past year.

After a series of interviews with judging panels made-up of engineers from the UK's leading companies, Dyffryn Taf School was recognised as the best Young Engineers Club in the UK when they were voted the Young Engineers Club of the Year.

BBC presenter Kate Humble hosted the awards ceremony where the club received a magnificent Rex Garrod Trophy, the Lloyd's Register Educational Trust Silver Salver and a cheque for £2,000.

At the ceremony, Lord Drayson, the Minister for Science and Innovation, said: "The biggest problems facing the world need innovative ideas from successive generations of young scientists and engineers."