TECH-savvy sixth-formers are on track to win a national competition.

A trio of Bolton School's year 12 computing pupils have won a place in the final of Network Rail's Could IT Be You competition for girls aged 16 to 18-years-old after illustrating how they would use technology to improve lives.

The team – made up of Evangeline Wright, Eleanor Bracegirdle and Jessie Sou – not only had to answer questions about the company but explain how they would use technology to bring about change.

Evangeline said: "We then had to write a 300 to 500 word essay on how you can use technology to make something happen – either inventing something, or a new way of using technology.

“I wrote about using biometric fingerprinting instead of tickets, and how that would be better because then you would never lose your ticket.”

Jessie wrote about a train app, while Eleanor wrote about using telecommunications to set up links between schools, potentially globally.

Their concepts helped to win each of them a place on the Finalist Day at the National Rail headquarters in Milton Keynes on February 19

Just 75 finalists were selected from across the whole of the UK.

Jessie said: “I was overjoyed when I got the email. It meant you were in the top 75 in the whole country.”

Eleanor added: “I was really happy —there are not many computing competitions, so knowing I was selected was really good."

On the Finalist Day, there will be a number of small competitions and five runners up will receive a year’s internship with National Rail.

The overall winner will receive £9,000 towards their university tuition fees.

All three students are looking to continue to study computer science in the future.

Eleanor and Evangeline both want to study computer science at university, with Evangeline hoping to become a programmer and Eleanor looking into the many options that this degree course will open up for her.

Jessie will be applying for accounting and computing courses and hopes to combine the two for her career as well.