| Design Squad | |
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| Genre | Reality Television |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
| Production company(s) | WGBH |
| Release | |
| Original release | February 21, 2007 – December 9, 2009 |
Design Squad (Brazilian Portuguese: Esquadrão do Design, Latin Spanish: El escuadrón de diseño), is an American reality competition television series targeted towards children ages 10–13. Contestants are high school students who design and build machines to compete for a $10,000 college scholarship from Intel.
The series aired on PBS Kids Go! from February 21, 2007 to December 9, 2009. It was produced by WGBH.
Synopsis[]
In each episode, contestants are separated into two color-coded teams to complete engineering projects for real-life clients. These are the Red Team and Blue Team in season 1 and the Green Team and Purple Team in seasons 2 and 3.
Engineers Nate Ball and Deanne Bell hosted season 1. After season 1, Bell departed for the Discovery Channel program Smash Lab, leaving Ball as the sole host of seasons 2 and 3.
Season 1[]
- Main page: Design Squad (season 1)
Season 2[]
- Main page: Design Squad (season 2)
Season 3[]
- Main page: Design Squad (season 3)
Design Squad Nation[]
- Main page: Design Squad Nation
Design Squad Global[]
PBS Kids launched the Design Squad Global website to complement the series. Targeted towards middle school students, the website enables children to share engineering ideas and sketches with each other, devise solutions to global design challenges, play games, and watch a web series hosted by Ball and Season 2 contestant Deysi Melgar.[1] In an initiative known as "DSG Clubs," the website also encourages middle school students to form engineering clubs and partner with clubs from other countries via the website.[2][3] This initiative aims to encourage children to "use the design process to solve problems and discover that engineering is a powerful tool for making a difference in the world" and teach them "'global competence'—the ability to communicate and collaborate with people from different backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives."[2]
Gallery[]
- Main page: Design Squad/Characters/Gallery
See also[]
- Design Squad Season 1 Contestants
- Design Squad Season 2 Contestants
- Design Squad Season 3 Contestants
References[]
This page uses Creative Commons licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).
- ↑ "About the Site," accessed December 28, 2021, https://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/site/index.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About DSG Clubs," accessed December 28, 2021, https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/about-dsg-clubs/.
- ↑ "Starting a Club," accessed December 28, 2021, http://pbslm-contrib.s3.amazonaws.com/WGBH/dsgclubs/StartingaClub.pdf.