MILLOM youngsters got all fired up about technology when they put their rocket car models to the test.

A police officer with a speed detector was even called in for the fast paced science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activity at Millom School.

The secondary school staged the phase two event for primary school children as a follow up activity to the project which started last year.

Pupils worked together with Millom School and Sellafield ambassadors to build a rocket cars which were powered by air.

Last Autumn pupils from Black Combe Junior School won a distance test and their prize was to have the name emblazoned on to the tail fin of the supersonic Bloodhound car which is designed to break the land speed record.

In the second phase of the project the modified cars used rocket motors. Pupils from Black Combe Junior School and Captain Shaw's CE Primary school and their teachers joined the Millom School staff and STEM ambassadors for the exciting event.

Much to the delight of the youngsters, Police Sergeant David Macdonald, of Cumbria Police, was on hand to the clock the times of the models.

While Millom School's test car proved too fast to record a reading, the primary school cars were set times of around 12mph on the school playground.

Debbie Tyson, the administrator at Captain Shaw's and a parent volunteer who went along to the event, said: "The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the event. They were enthusiastic and interested."