The winners of Furness Lego League have America in their sights.

Furness Lego League was introduced to get more pupils involved in STEM subjects - Science, technology, engineering and maths.

Pupils from 12 schools spent the day with Lego robots at Barrow Sixth Form College. Students took part in a number of challenges including a global competition.

The overall champions were George Romney, who will go on to represent the area at nationals in April in Harrogate. If they win the next competition, the students will compete in America.

For the Global Lego challenge pupils designed a Lego robot and had to direct it to complete eight small tasks in less than three minutes.

St Paul’s have attended the competition five times and won last year.

Students had been given the theme of 'superpowers' for their designs. The children of St Pauls even made badges and had a special chant for their Lego.

Mr Bailey from St Paul's said: “The school has been involved with the Lego league for a number of years.

"It’s a great opportunity for children to experience STEM for the first time, everyone has really enjoyed it and hopefully we’ve inspired some engineers for the future.”

It was Cambridge Primary School’s first year of taking part in the challenge, Keira, Rylan, Emmanuel and Dylan said they were all really enjoying it and were confident of reaching the top five. The pupils said they all have Lego at home, so were happy to sign up for the Lego club at school. They said getting picked to take part in the competition was worth missing out on a couple of break times to work on their model.

There was also a mini challenge, the children were tasked with making a duck out of Lego.

Fran Ward, the director of C-STEM, said: “It’s the first year back after the pandemic and I’m really pleased. We’re going to have a strong representative at nationals.

"It wouldn’t be possible without the support of Orsted who have provided for the schools and stepped up for hosting and judging roles.”

James Hardy from the Institution of Engineering and Technology said: “Yet another super regional final. Furness is full of energy and enthusiasm, you can’t bottle it.”

The innovation award went to St Pauls, Croftlands won the award for design, Askam won the core values award and the robot performance award went to Holy family.

Ewan from St Pauls won the best duck, and the two Orsted awards went to Levens and Sacred Heart, who made everything from scratch.