TALENTED teenagers have scooped two awards for their innovative inventions.

Students at Harwich and Dovercourt High School took their top creations to the Big Bang Fair in Chelmsford.

Year Ten students Alfie Benson and Abbie Pruden won the senior engineering award for their Smart Mirror - a mirror which projects the time, weather and news stories on to the glass when you are looking at it.

Teacher Allan Bullock said: “It also includes a Bluetooth speaker and a version of a Amazon Alexa built from scratch from a Raspberry Pi computer.

“It shows through the mirror.

“They were both really happy that they had won, and glad to get recognition for all the work they have done over the last year.”

The award was followed by another from the Chelmsford Engineering Society for Alfie’s Weather Balloon, which travelled to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere and back again.

Alfie won the Concept Design Award. Mr Bullock added: “It was an excellent awards ceremony and Alfie was really pleased.”