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Design Squad Nation; It's Alive

12/02/2010

HD Master of Episode 102: It’s Alive! (Cake)

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Series

Design Squad Nation

Program

It's Alive

Program Number

102

Series Description

This series, hosted by professional engineers Judy Lee and Adam Vollmer, is about making kids' dreams come true through engineering. As engineers Judy and Adam use their know-how to help kids across the country and around the world design and build creations.

Premiering on PBS in January 2011, DESIGN SQUAD NATION is a 10-part series of TV shows and video blogs that build on the success of the award-winning PBS reality competition series DESIGN SQUAD to get kids excited about engineering. DESIGN SQUAD NATION is high-energy, high-drama reality TV led by Judy and Adam, two professional engineers who work with kids around the world to make their wishes come true through engineering. From creating a park for skaters at the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona to building a playground in a rural village in Nicaragua's northern mountains, the goal of DESIGN SQUAD NATION is to inspire viewers to take on their own hands-on engineering activities. Series release date: 1/26/2011

Program Description

Original Episode Number: 405

Judy and Adam join forces with Jennifer—a young pastry chef from Boston, MA—to create the cake of her dreams for the cast party of “Young Frankenstein: The Musical.” With guidance and inspiration from master baker Jorg Amsler of Truly Jorg’s Patisserie in Saugus, MA, the team engineers a cake that is part delicious, part electronic, and part mad scientist—wowing the musical’s cast and crew.

Engineering Content: Engineering connects to a broad range of careers (including those that are food related). Science Content: Electricity; Simple Machines

Duration

00:28:46

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Topics

Science

Citation

Chicago: “Design Squad Nation; It's Alive,” 12/02/2010, GBH Archives, accessed January 19, 2022, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8835985A4DCB49DDB1132A547EF352C8.

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