CHILDREN are our future. It may be a well-worn phrase, but with good reason, because young people will be responsible for all our great inventions, new businesses and technological breakthroughs in ten years time.

Last week we glimpsed that future at Inspirations 2015, held at the Yorkshire Air Museum. This showcase for science, technology, engineering and mathematics was full to the brim with great ideas thought up by North Yorkshire school children and many of them have a good chance of becoming commercially viable.

Science classes were once approached with dread, but it's amazing the results you get by simply adding a test-tube of fun to the formula.