Schoolchildren compete to show their enterprise as the scientists and technologists of the future.
Paddy Feeny introduces the three teams.

The Girls of Mayfield School, Putney demonstrate: Visual perception in goldfish

Pupils of Thomas Bennett's School, Crawley show their work on: The synthesis of amino acids

The Boys of Bexley-Erith Technical High School show an invention: A meter for testing the water content of moulding sand

The judges:
Professor G. Porter, physical chemist, University of Sheffield
Professor E.R. Laithwaite, electrical engineer, University of London
Dr. J.D. Carthy, biologist, University of London
Chairman, Dr. Tom Margerison
Outside broadcast from Norbury Manor Secondary Boys' School, based on a Science Fair organised by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Sunday Times