Over the next six weeks, a team of four students at Wagga Christian College will turn a computer image into an all-terrain vehicle.
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Working together during their holidays, year 11 student Jye Heffren, 17, has been designing and 3D printing the model car.
"I've made numerous mistakes with the scale of it. There have been 10 or 11 variations of the rim," he said.
The aim is to improve from 2019 when the debutantes took home two national awards in the Schools 4x4 Challenge.
Chief-driver and coder, Caleb Heffren, 14, from year 9, has already begun improving the build's functional personality.
"I'm looking at putting some window wipers in that will be attached to a moisture sensor, just to make it more interesting," he said.
The main area of improvement this year will be in its marketing.
"We did do very well last year, but the points we lost were in the marketing part of the challenge," said team manager and year 10 student Amy Combs, 15.
Already, the team has secured some strong sponsorship deals.
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Due to the pandemic, this year the judges will travel around the country to assess each school's driving skills, instead of hosting the usual two-day national gala.
Joining the returning teammates is year 10 student Vené Jonck.
It's been a "steep learning curve" for the 15-year-old who moved to Australia from South Africa only six months ago.
"I was going to join next year, but a place opened up to join this year," she said.
"This year has already been so different for me. But it's good to be involved with something like this already."