I won a space contest in Metro aged 12 – I’m now an award-winning engineer 17 years later

Jennifer Barry went from kids space camp to real-life space engineer (Picture: Christian Trampenau/The Institution of Engineering and Technology)

Reading Metro newspaper really can change your life.

We might sound biased, but now there is proof – just ask Jennifer Barry.

She was a schoolgirl when she won a Metro competition in 2008 to spend a week at a space camp in Turkey.

And now, 17 years later, she’s an award-winning space engineer who has addressed the United Nations...