Four potential engineers of the future gained a fascinating insight into the real world of engineering during a special visit to a Grantown-on-Spey company.

Second year technology pupils Calum Binnie, Dean Howie, Lyndsay Simpson and Kelly McInnes, from Kingussie High School learned about everything from design and buying to fabrication and quality control on their trip to MacKellar Engineering.

The group, who were accompanied by the school's principal teacher of technology Brian Dziennik, won the visit as first prize in a quiz run by the company at the Make it in Scotland manufacturing roadshow held last month by Careers Scotland in Nairn.

MacKellar Engineering, which employs 100 people at its base in Grantown's Strathpsey Industrial Estate, manufactures subsea equipment for the oil industry worldwide.

Director Fraser MacKellar said: "We were delighted to show these young people what we do.

"It is really important that people from that age group start thinking about what they do in the future. That was the whole idea behind the Make it in Scotland event and we were pleased to be able to play our part.

"We were able to show our prizewinners that there is a lot more to engineering than perhaps they had imagined."