JITTERBUGGING was once known as a dance floor craze back in the Saturday night Palais days of the 1950s.
But nowadays pupils at a number of schools know jitterbugs as mechanical racing insects.
Engineers from the Science and Technology Research Organisation at Salford are currently on a programme of Leigh Education Action Zone school visits, introducing youngsters to a case of the 21st century jitters.
In a tour of the Wigan borough, the engineers have held workshops at Westleigh St Paul's and Newton Westpark schools, where children were encouraged to design and manufacture colourful buggy racers.
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