All-girl team revving up for world race car building challenge


Girl power: Mohd Jafni (centre) presenting a mock cheque to SMK Bandar Putra’s Team Layang, represented by (from left) Lai, Prashantinee, Anis Fadhilah and Angel during a ceremony at the Putra ­ Multi-purpose Hall in Kulai. — THOMAS YONG/The Star

KULAI: Four girls from a secon­dary school here proved their sceptics wrong when they emer­ged as national champions in a race car building challenge, paving way for them to enter the world stage next.

SMK Bandar Putra’s Team Layang clinched the national science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) racing title in February, outperforming 200 teams across Malaysia.

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