Chatham House Grammar School will be among the entrants in Greenpower’s Corporate Challenge on Sunday.

The event, which will also feature CBBC’s Blue Peter and Bentley Cars, aims to get companies designing and building electric cars to compete against the top 15 vehicles built by secondary schools from around the UK.

Chatham House, in Ramsgate, has been chosen as one of the pioneers in the competition in the last seven years, finishing in the top 10 regularly.

Race day is at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, and corporate teams are hard at work putting the finishing touches to their entries to make sure they are not put to shame by young budding engineers.

The Greenpower projects encourage school students from primary school age upwards to consider engineering and technology as a career.

Entrants are provided with identical electric motors and batteries, then must design and build their car to a supplied specification.

Race day will see teams from the likes of Bentley Motors, Renishaw plc, and event sponsors Fordinbridge plc in a grueling four hour endurance race with the top cars from the 2007 Greenpower National Final.

For further information about this event, please visit www.greenpower.co.uk