St Paul’s Racers

Greenpower is a company dedicated to promoting engineering and technology as careers to pupils throughout their school life, through an exciting hands-on project to help design, build and race an electric racing car.

Greenpower have been running the 'Formula 24' series for secondary schools since 1999. In that time hundreds of schools and many thousand children have played an active part. Each team uses the same standard 24 volt electric wheelchair motor and four 12 volt car batteries (two on the car, and two in quarantine with no charging allowed). Races are four hours long.

St Paul’s Racers who comprise students from years 7 to 11 have been involved in building and racing cars since 2000.
The cars have been called;
SPAM II
Silver Fox
Silver Fox II
Zytec 1
Zytec 2
Zytec Aero
iWac Aero
All students have the fantastic opportunity to participate in an activity of their choice on Wednesday afternoons designed to enrich their lives by improving their skills or giving them the opportunity to try something new.

“Enrichment” is a compulsory part of the curriculum where the school endeavours to offer an alternative set of options that will give students a chance to participate in a group setting in a creative and challenging way.