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Design Squad

Description: Designed to show kids that engineering is active, fun and collaborative, "Design Squad" brings together eight high schoolers, working together in two groups of four, to tackle engineering projects for actual clients. On each episode, the teams have two days to design, build, test and redesign their product before one team's creation is declared best, and the teams are then reconfigured for the next task. In the finale, the top two scorers over the previous 12 episodes face one last challenge, with the winner awarded a $10,000 scholarship.
Genre: Family
Year Released: 1970
Number of seasons: 3
Number of episodes: 41
First episode air date: January 1, 1970
Awards: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media - Original Daytime Program or Series, MORE
Spin Off: Design Squad Nation
Networks: PBS, PBS Kids Go!
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