PUPILS were challenged to design a new app to try to cure polio.

The Rotary Club of Colchester asked Year 7 and 8 pupils at the Gilberd School, in Colchester, to design a game in which they would try to end the infectious disease.

They had to create a superhero character within their game for the project, which was called End Polio Now.

More than 100 ideas were submitted and the winners were announced during a school assembly.

Tom Lee and Abigail Nowels were named joint winners, while Alice Parker, Emily Blackman, Cora Ingram-Smith and Emma McDonald were highly commended.

Rotarian Peter Herring said: “The characters they invested were amazing.

“When their names were called out, they were really delighted.”

The organisation hopes to find a partner to turn the game into a Rotary International Project to raise cash to eradicate polio.