Pupils from across Caithness and Sutherland have visited the Dounreay atomic-energy site as part of a project to encourage young people into engineering.
Around 350 children from local schools visited the plant and the Caithness Horizons visitor centre at Thurso to learn more about the opportunities the industry offers in the Highlands. Farr High School pupils also visited Forss windfarm. A tour of Nigg Energy Park is planned for later in the year.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise development manager Laura Robertson said: “The visits to large engineering sites such as Dounreay and Nigg Energy Park are intended to both excite and inspire many of the pupils, and we hope they will use the experience to look more closely at a career which many of them may not have fully considered before.”
The project is being co-ordinated by Wick High School teacher Stuart Tait.