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Each season's episode consists of a topic and rules to create a machine to cater to its purpose. Here are a few examples of the episodes' topics. One episode has a professional race car builder challenge the teams to take kiddie toys and convert them to motorized dragsters. Another episode challenges them to use remote-controlled cameras to cover every possible angel during a basketball game.
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In the final showdown, the teams test their sea legs by building sailboats to race across the open ocean. The captain of the winning team is awarded a $10,000 college scholarship from the Intel Foundation.
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In the final showdown, the teams test their sea legs by building sailboats to race across the open ocean. The captain of the winning team is awarded a $10,000 college scholarship from the Intel Foundation.
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The competition heats up when Redbones BBQ Restaurant owner, Rob Gregory, challenges the teams to build a bicycle-powered rotisserie.
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Come along for the ride as the Design Squads build dry land dog sleds for Jamaican Dog Sled team members Damion Robb and Newton Marshall.
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Come along for the ride as the Design Squads build dry land dog sleds for Jamaican Dog Sled team members Damion Robb and Newton Marshall.
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It comes down to the buzzer when WNBA players Lindsay Whalen and Tameka Raymond challenge the Design Squads to build T-shirt shooters that reach their arena's upper deck. The winning T-shirt shooter is announced live at a Connecticut Sun home game.
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The Design Squads build remote-controlled, aquatic pet rescue vehicles for the New Orleans Fire Department.
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The Design Squads build remote-controlled, aquatic pet rescue vehicles for the New Orleans Fire Department.
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U.S. Paralympic athlete and wheelchair rugby player Kerri Morgan asks the teams to track her every move on the court by building an automated wheelchair that simulates a defensive player on the attack.
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The Design Squad teams reach new heights by building indestructible, remote-controlled, flying football targets for Nerf toymaker Hasbro. Future football stars judge the designs for the kick-off episode of season three.
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In this two-part season finale, the teams revamp go-karts in a high-speed off-road race. The fastest go-kart will be featured in MAKE magazine, and the contestant who ends up with the most total points wins a college scholarship provided by the Intel Foundation.
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In this two-part season finale, the teams revamp go-karts in a high-speed off-road race. The fastest go-kart will be featured in MAKE magazine, and the contestant who ends up with the most total points wins a college scholarship provided by the Intel Foundation.
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They shoot, they score! Boston Bruins defenseman Matt Lashoff challenges the teams to build remote-controlled hockey net targets.
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The teams must hit a home run for Del "The Dogman" Christman - local celebrity and hot dog vendor for the Lowell Spinners (a Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox) - who is in need of an onion dispenser to dress up his dogs.
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Make way for Super Duck Excursions! Christine Lee, guide for the Boston-based amphibious touring vehicle company, challenges the teams to create an underwater-radio-controlled robot to add a level of excitement to her narrated tour.
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DESIGN SQUAD gets back to nature as the teams sculpt large-scale insects from found forest materials.
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The teams bring the adrenaline rush of an amusement park ride to the backyard of 13-year old Andreas Hoffman.
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Dancer and performance artist Lisa Bufano, a bilateral leg and finger amputee, challenges the teams to build specialized prostheses for an underwater performance.
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The Design Squad teams go head-to-head as they compete to build high-speed, gravity bikes for Gravity Sports International champion Tom Whalen.
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Two Food Project volunteers challenge the teams to design a compost lifter for their urban farm.
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An Alaska native challenges the DESIGN SQUAD teams to build 10-foot kayaks using traditional design but with non-traditional materials.
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The Design Squad teams create innovative yet practical cardboard furniture for the home good superstore IKEA. Furniture shoppers take a seat in the judge's chair to decide the winning team.
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The Design Squad is asked to develop and test a summer sled for L.L. Bean.
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The Design Squad compete to create a sound and light show triggered by hip-hop artist Wyatt Jackson's moves.
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The Design Squad teams use recycled materials to make wind powered kinetic art.
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A new 11-foot tall water slide is built for the YMCA pool, the teams have to make a pump to deliver the water.
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The Design Squad teams compete to make a machine to make flapjacks at the flick of a switch; the machine has to cook, flip, and make delicious flapjacks.
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The Design Squad teams compete to design the best dual purpose clothing.
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The Design Squad have the challenge to design a device that automatically sends balls to Michael Parkhurst, who plays for the New England Revolution.
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The Design Squad help change the lives of a women's collective in Haiti; by designing a low cost, portable, and durable peanut butter making machine.
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The Design Squad have a challenge to cover all the angles of a basketball game by using remote controlled cameras.
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The Design Squad compete to build a 20 foot bridge; without power tools, forklifts, or even flushable toilets.
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The Design Squad make bikes for a man named Skunk who wants to impress the members of SCUL (Subversive Choppers Urban Legion).
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The Design Squad teams compete to make one percussive and one stringed original musical instruments for Off White Noise.
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The Design Squad teams are challenged by a professional race car builder to convert kiddie toys into motorized dragsters.
