The teams build sailboats to race across the open ocean.

Escape from Misery Island Part 2 (Ep. 310)

The teams test their sea legs by building sailboats to race across the open ocean.

Escape from Misery Island Part 1 (Ep. 309)

A BBQ Restaurant owner challenges the teams to build a bicycle-powered rotisserie.

Tour de BBQ (Ep. 308)

The Design Squads build dry land dog sleds for a Jamaican Dog Sled team.

sNOw Problem? Part 2 (Ep. 307)

The Design Squads build dry land dog sleds for Jamaican Dog Sled team.

sNOw Problem? Part 1 (Ep. 306)

Shooting for the Sun (Ep. 305)

The Design Squads build remote-controlled, aquatic pet rescue vehicles.

Water Rescue Part 2 (Ep. 304)

Water Rescue Part 1 (Ep. 303)

The DS designs a device that feeds a stream of soccer balls to professional players.

Just for Kicks (Ep. 107)

The teams try designing a peanut butter making machines.

Collective Collaboration (Ep. 106)

The teams compete to prove who's got game!

Got Game? (Ep. 105)

The teams take a crash course in pre-industrial building techniques.

DS Unplugged (Ep. 104)

The DS teams help a client who comes in looking for a bizarre bike.

Skunk'd (Ep. 103)

The teams compete to create original musical instruments for a local band.

Rock On (Ep. 102)

The DS teams are challenged to convert kiddie toys into motorized dragsters.

The Need for Speed (Ep. 101)

DSN asks kids to reuse and re-engineer everyday materials into the next big invention.

Trash to Treasure (Ep. 410)

Team One Giant Leap competes in the 2010 Red Bull Flugtag competition.

One Giant Leap Part 2 (Ep. 409)

Judy and Adam invite Felipe to compete in the 2010 Red Bull Flugtag competition.

One Giant Leap Part 1 (Ep. 408)

Judy and Adam journey to the northern mountains of Nicaragua.

DIY Playground (Ep. 407)

Judy and Adam meet Beatriz to help her combine her passion for music and bike building.

Musical Bike (Ep. 406)

Eduarda and Juan's dreams come true when a famous fashion designer challenges them.

A Cut Above Part 2 (Ep. 405)

A Cut Above Part 1 (Ep. 404)

Meet Mariam and Bert, two young members of Global Generation.

Garden-to-Go (Ep. 403)

Judy and Adam join forces with a young pastry chef to create the cake of her dreams.

It's Alive! (Ep. 402)

Design Squad builds a skateboarding street course.

Apache Skateboarders (Ep. 401)

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Design Squad Nation's Judy and Adam show you how to make a device that launches confetti.

DIY: Confetti Launcher

Kid Engineer Anjali builds a xylophone from recycled materials with Fire Seed Arts.

DIY Xylophone

Design a structure that’s sturdy enough to survive an earthquake’s vibrations.

Seismic Shake-Up

Watch as Design Squad shows you how to hack a greeting card so that it works for you!

Hack a Greeting Card

Design Squad user Izzybella8 designed a device that catches melted ice cream.

No Drip Ice Cream Cone

Want to make a robot? Watch as Design Squad shows you how!

Bristle Bots

Design and build your own sturdy structure out of newspaper and masking tape!

Top Builder: Newspaper Power

Power up! Nate demonstrates how to make a cell phone charger!

How Do You Charge a Cell Phone?

Dance Pad

Engineer your lunchbox to keep a frozen treat from melting on a hot summer day!

Build a Better Lunchbox

Light up a room by making glow sticks using lights and batteries!

Glow Sticks

Air Cannon

Use simple materials to build your very own crazy collector!

Treasure Grab

Unpoppable Balloon

Balloon Car

Marshmallow Blaster

Robo-Wheel

Design Squad Nation hosts Judy and Adam show you how to make a rubber band powered car.

DIY: Roving the Moon

Design Squad Nation's Judy and Adam show you how to make a zip line for a Ping-Pong ball.

DIY: Zip Line

Design Squad Nation's Judy and Adam show you how to add headphones to a musical instrument

DIY: Headphone Helper

Design Squad Nation hosts Judy and Adam show you how to make a sculpture that moves.

DIY: Kinetic Sculpture

DIY: Rubber Band Car

Design Squad's Judy and Adam show you how to make a battery-operated Ping Pong paddle.

Kick Stick Challenge

Paper Table Challenge

Design Squad engineers Judy and Adam show you how to make a mini-alarm.

Hidden Alarm Challenge

Design Squad engineers Judy and Adam show you how to make a mini-catapult.

Pop Fly Challenge

Do-It-Yourself

Kid engineering Amiyr wants his community to have more pollinator-friendly plants!

Seed Launching Backpack

Nate builds a water play table that circulates water for his sons to play in!

Backyard Water Table

Kid engineer Mehaa found a better way to flush toilets using recycled water!

Water-Saving Toilet

Cousins Sita and Krishna invent a belt that keeps the body cool in the heat.

Fashion Sun Shield

Two kid engineers build inventions to help the environment!

Garbage Sorter & Squirrel Shoes

Nate teams up with kid engineer Hannah to invent a better crab pot.

Whale-Saving Crab Pot

Kid engineer Owen uses old furniture to make new inventions!

Kid Engineer: Upcycled Art Station

Kid engineer Anna invented an underwater remotely operating vehicle (R.O.V.).

Kid Engineer: Underwater R.O.V.

Watch as Nate, Grace and Ruby build their own stomp rockets using recycled materials!

Nate Recycles: Stomp Rockets

Kid engineer Andrea explains how to use compost to heat a greenhouse!

Kid Engineer: Compost Heater

Nate builds an obstacle course and uses many different fasteners to hold things together.

How to Use Fasteners

Anjali and Caleb build a strong and secure box to collect money for an arts center.

Build a Donation Box

See how students at the Acera school build and test boats made using recycled materials.

Boats with Recycled Materials

Nate builds and rides a tall bike to test if it is easy or hard to balance.

Build: Bicycle Balance

Kid Engineer Sadie explains how she designed and built a wheelchair that becomes a walker.

Kid Engineer: Walker Wheeler

Kid Engineers Cheyenne and Madison design a better way to spread butter on toast.

Design: Better Butter

Deysi challenges you to build a strong structure using cardboard and tape.

Top Builder: Cardboard Structures

Watch kid engineers design a way to keep classroom chairs from tipping and falling.

Design: Safe School Chair

See how a team of kid engineers design and build a device to dry wet shoes.

How to Dry Your Wet Shoes

Nate designs a way to use solar power to warm up the pool for his son, Calvin.

Daddy Engineer: Solar Pool Heaters

Kid engineer Joseph uses technology to make a smart hoodie that can track heart rate.

Kid Engineer: Wearable Technology

Deysi challenges you to make a musical instrument from unusual materials, like a carrot!

How to Make a Carrot Flute

How can you grab objects that are out of reach? Watch kid engineers build a tool to help!

Helping Hand: Build an Assistive Device

Deysi challenges you to become a Top Builder by making a useful tool with rubber bands!

Top Builder: Rubber Band Tool

Nate builds a giant swing for his son, Calvin, using the power of triangles.

Daddy Engineer: Tripod Outdoor Swing

Sarah and Lilly show how to use simple machines called pulleys when they go rock climbing.

Rock Climbing for Kids with Disabilities

Teams of kids compete to build strong structures using only newspaper and cardboard.

Strong Newspaper Structures

Ella, Lucas, and Tyler design and build a dragon puppet that looks like it breathes fire!

Fire Breathing Dragon Puppet

See how Nate uses triangles to make strong, stable, and supportive structures.

Strong Structures with Triangles

What is green alternative energy? Deysi goes on a scavenger hunt to find examples.

Green Energy Hunt

Kid engineers Grace and Aaron design and build a bin that encourages people to recycle.

Kid Engineer: Recycling Nudge

See how kid engineers Zuzu and Kyra make a compost tumbler to turn scraps into plant food!

Kid Engineer: Compost Tumbler

Deysi makes a water-powered crane to lift a heavy bag of pennies!

Hydraulic Crane

Deysi challenges you to build strong structures using only paper and tape!

Top Builder: Paper Structures

Deysi prototypes a ball to play soccer at night, based on an idea sent to Design Squad.

Light-Up Soccer Ball

Spark your interest in learning how engineering can help change the world!

DSG Theme: Engineer Our Tomorrow

Young engineers from South Africa share some of their design ideas!

Plastic: South Africa

See the prototypes that kid engineers built at the Sci-Bono Clubhouse in South Africa!

Kid Engineer: South Africa Invents

What can you build with this strong grass? See some ideas from kids in South Africa!

Bamboo: South Africa

Watch Kaeleen and Miles design a way for people to drop off and pick up new books.

Kid Engineer: Little Free Library

Kid Engineer Rikalize shows how she designed and built her own aquaponics farm.

Kid Engineer: Growing Plants with Fish

Deysi challenges you to become a Top Builder by making a toy boat from recycled materials!

Top Builder: Toy Boat

Nate makes a bicycle trailer that can carry fresh vegetables around town!

Bicycle Farm Trailer

For this Top Builder, Deysi challenges you to build a bridge out of toothpicks.

Top Builder: Toothpick Bridge

Two teams of kids design and build catapults to fling a tennis ball as far as possible.

Build a Catapult

Deysi uses her bicycle to demonstrate simple machines like levers and ramps.

What are Simple Machines?

See how these kid engineers design and prototype a way to store things in their lockers!

Kid Engineer: Locker Hammock

See how these teams of kid engineers solve problems around the house, like a mini-table!

Kid Engineer: Home Helpers

Learn how to turn plastic bags into plarn and get ideas for how to use it in your designs!

Plarn: What a Cool Material

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