In preparation for the World Final, eventual winners Brooks High School race team, from Tasmania, developed a miniature car made up of 17 different components - one of which was a world first.
Murat Djakic, the teams teacher said giving his students the freedom to explore their limits lead to amazing creativity and innovation.
"It all started with the wheels,” Djakic said.
“The students came up with a design that required plastic injection moulding which is an expensive process so they put a business plan together and got sponsorship to make them.
“After the World Finals when the team met Formula One engineers at the Singapore Grand Prix the engineers were amazed at our innovation and said they will try to use that material in their real F1 cars.”
Djakic believes that students learn well when they are given opportunities to problem solve and to be pro-active and he encourages educators to give students opportunities to work things out for themselves.
"Programs like F1 in Schools help to build up the students' confidence,” he said.
“They believe in themselves. Our World Champion team had to speak in front of 600 people and business owners, do business plans, put proposals to sponsors, go out and work with industry.
“It's about more than kids sitting at a desk - life isn't all about theories, you've got to be practical too."
Not only is this innovation being sought after at the highest level, the team from Launceston also sold three dozen sets to their competitors at the World Finals and have taken orders for them locally, nationally and internationally.