Design Squad Season 3

WGBH将制作第三季的Design Squad，PBS真人秀竞赛系列-伴随着一个外展活动和网站(pbskidsgo.org/DesignTeam)-旨在激励新一代工程师。通过这个节目，青少年们学会了聪明地思考，快速地建造，并与一系列疯狂的工程挑战作斗争--所有这些都是为了现实生活中的客户。这部快节奏的电视剧面向9至12岁的儿童，对所有年龄段的人来说都很有趣，是一项旨在吸引孩子学习工程学的全国性多媒体倡议背后的推动力。该计划将继续在第一季和第二季期间创造的兴奋和势头的基础上，同时在项目交付成果方面创造许多创新。更具体地说，四个主要目标是：(1)扩大该项目在中学课堂的覆盖面，使教师能够将工程学融入他们的课程；(2)通过在全国范围内挑选参赛者并在全国各地(内华达州沙漠、新奥尔良和阿拉斯加)制作三个挑战来扩大电视节目的参与度；(3)创建第一个在线社区，孩子们可以在其中分享他们现实世界的工程项目，并通过嵌入的弹出式评论提供更丰富的视频观看体验；以及(4)支持现有的合作伙伴关系，特别是与工程专业协会的合作伙伴关系，同时建立新的伙伴关系。设计队及其“中学课堂”活动将产生最大的影响：(1)满足工程教育和儿童-S电视的关键需求；(2)增加学生对工程和设计过程的知识；(3)向学生展示工程是有创意的、有价值的和具有社会意义的，特别是对女孩和少数族裔来说。《形成性》和《终结性》将在未来几季为设计小队和整个非正式和正式的科学教育社区提供信息，他们缺乏关于教师如何将工程学融入中学科学课程的研究。该项目由教育和人力资源局和工程局共同资助。

WGBH will produce a third season of Design Squad, PBS reality competition series-with an accompanying outreach campaign and Web site (pbskidsgo.org/designsquad)-designed to inspire a new generation of engineers. Through the show, teenagers learn to think smart, build fast, and contend with a wild array of engineering challenges-all for real-life clients. Targeted to 9- to 12-year-olds, and fun for people of all ages, this fast-paced TV series is the fuel behind a national, multimedia initiative designed to attract kids to engineering. The plan is to continue to build on the excitement and momentum have created during Seasons I and II, while also creating many innovations in project deliverables. More specifically, the four overarching goals are to (1) expand the project's reach into the middle school classroom with materials that will enable teachers to integrate engineering into their curriculum; (2) broaden participation with the TV show by casting contestants nationwide and producing three challenges at locations around the country (the Nevada desert, New Orleans, and Alaska); (3) create the first online community where kids can share their real-world engineering projects and provide a richer video viewing experience with embedded "pop-up" commentary; and (4) support existing partnerships especially with engineering professional societies, while forming new ones. Design Squad and its "Middle School Classroom" initiative will have maximum impact: (1) addressing a critical need in engineering education and children?s television; (2) increasing students, knowledge of engineering and the design process; and (3) showcasing engineering as creative, rewarding, and socially relevant, especially to girls and minorities. Formative and summative will inform both future seasons of Design Squad and the informal and formal science education community at large, which is lacking research on how teachers can integrate engineering into the middle school science curriculum.This project is co-funded by Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Directorate for Engineering.