Kids & Family

Natural History Museum (left). Credit: Elizabeth Grove

Design Squad

Design Squad throws eight high schoolers into the big, wild world of engineering. The teams learn to build fast, think smart and not totally freak out when their stuff falls apart. Working in groups of four, each team has just two days to get it done! What they do ranges from constructing cardboard furniture for IKEA … to building hockey net targets for the Boston Bruins … to designing underwater prostheses for an amputee dancer.

Upcoming episodes

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Sat., February 11, 2012
12:00 pm
(30 minutes)

Two teams of high-school students design and build various machines in a competition for scholarship money.

Rating: TV-G

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Sat., February 18, 2012
12:00 pm
(30 minutes)

Two teams of high-school students design and build various machines in a competition for scholarship money.

Rating: TV-G

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Sat., February 25, 2012
12:00 pm
(30 minutes)

Two teams of high-school students design and build various machines in a competition for scholarship money.

Rating: TV-G

Previously aired episodes

Airs on
WETA Kids Channel

Sat., February 4, 2012
12:00 pm
(30 minutes)

Two teams of high-school students design and build various machines in a competition for scholarship money.

Rating: TV-G

Channel guide


Via antenna	26.4	26.1	26.2	26.3
Comcast	26, 92	220 (DC), 219 (Balt)	265	266
Cox	26, 802	1026 (Fairfax), 1003 (Fredericksburg)	800	801
Verizon FIOS	26, 471	526	474	472
RCN	26	613	39	38
DirecTV	26	26
Dish Network	8076