Design Squad: Nate's Roadtrip

WGBH正在制作一部PBS电视连续剧，并为9至12岁的儿童提供相应的网络和外联活动，以激励一代初出茅庐的工程师。设计团队：Nate的RoadTrip(暂定标题)将是一部10集的电视连续剧，它是建立在WGBH之前获奖作品的基础上的。该系列的目标是激发人们的热情，促进对工程和技术的理解和兴趣。在这个生动的节目设想的乐趣背后，是一个严肃的教育目的--让孩子们像工程师一样思考，了解如何利用科学技术解决现实生活中的问题。电视节目将得到一个广泛的配套网站的补充，以及为工程师提供的材料和培训，以便在公共场所举办Design Squad活动，并在学校、课后项目和图书馆举办研讨会。该网站将创建一个在线社区的平台，在那里年轻的参与者将分享他们自己的项目，看看其他人做了什么，并向主持人发送问题。外展活动将得到WGBH在教育和工程界的持续关系的支持，包括女童子军、国际技术教育协会、美国航天局和英特尔计算机俱乐部。Viridian Insight将对项目进行总结性评估，以衡量项目影响，包括对科学和工程概念和设计过程的知识；对工程的态度；对工程职业机会的认识和兴趣；以及孩子们认为工程具有创造性、回报和社会相关性的程度。设计团队：Nate的RoadTrip视频博客定于2010年2月首播，该电视节目定于2010年10月首播。

WGBH is producing a PBS television series, with accompanying web and outreach activities for 9- to 12-year-olds, to inspire a generation of budding engineers. Design Squad: Nate's Roadtrip (working title) will be a 10-part television series that is building on WGBH's prior award-winning work. The series goal is to engender enthusiasm and promote understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology. Behind the fun that this lively show envisions is a serious educational purpose--to get kids to think like engineers and understand how to use science and technology to solve real-life problems. The television programs will be complemented with an extensive companion web site, as well as materials and training for engineers to mount Design Squad events in public venues and run workshops in schools, afterschool programs and libraries. The web site will create a platform for an online community where young participants will share their own projects, see what others have made, and send in questions to the host. Outreach activities will be supported by WGBH's ongoing relationships in the educational and engineering community, including the Girl Scouts, International Technology Education Association, NASA, and the Intel Computer Clubhouses. Viridian inSight will conduct summative evaluation of the project to measure project impacts including knowledge of science and engineering concepts and the design process; attitudes towards engineering; awareness of and interest in engineering career opportunities; and the extent to which kids perceive engineering as creative, rewarding, and socially relevant. Design Squad: Nate's Roadtrip Video Blog is slated to premiere February 2010 and the television show is slated to premiere in October 2010.