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    Cyberchase

    Cyberchase

    PBS Kids
    Follow the awesome adventures of three extraordinary kids, collectively called The CyberSquad: Matt, The leader Jackie the CyberSquad's resident fashion guru, and Inez, with a lot of questions in her mind. At the beginning of the series, Matt, Jackie and Inez, through a set of extraordinary circumstances, get transported into "Cyberspace" by a Library Computer on planet Earth. Now all three are involved in a power struggle between the beautiful and wise Motherboard, protector of all Cyberspace, and a dastardly villain named The Hacker,(and his bumbling henchmen, Buzz, and Delete) who wishes to become its controller. With the help of Dr. Marbles and Digit, Motherboard's faithful aides, the kids must go on crazy adventures to save Cyberspace from Hacker and his evil plans by using logic and mathematics instead of weapons and dramatics to defeat any obstacles in their way!moreless
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    Super Why!

    Super Why!

    PBS Kids
    Super WHY! is a program designed to help teach kids that reading can be fun by illustrated children's tales. Kids will learn through four interactive heroes - The Super Readers - by using reading to solve mysteries to overcome obstacles. The fairy tale books that Super Why and his compainions Alpha Pig, Wonder Red and Princess Presto travel into are slightly different from the original story.moreless
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    Design Squad

    Design Squad

    PBS Kids
    Design Squad is a reality television show on PBS, in which kids between the ages of 15 and 19 years old design fantastical machines, all in the hopes of winning a $10,000 Intel college scholarship. Inventing is hard, even for these bright rising engineers, but luckily the kids are divided into two teams, where they can bounce ideas off of each other and collaborate on blue prints. Each person on the winning team of each challenge gets 100 points, but since the team compositions change with each challenge, an individual winner comes out on top at the end. From turning ordinary toy cars into motorized speed machines, to inventing and creating new instruments, to designing high-tech haute couture, the challenges are fun and there is a lot of creativity in each imagination-fueled episode. Design Squad teaches children about engineering in a fun way, helps along the careers of its aspiring engineer participants, and encourages viewers to be creative and think, build, and play their ways to success.moreless
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    Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

    Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

    PBS Kids
    Mama Mirabelle's Home Videos is an animated children's TV series created by Douglas Wood as it centers on three young resident of the African savanna Ð Max, a young toddler of an elephant; Karla, a thoughtful and inquisitive Zebra foal; and the adventurous cheetah Cub, Bo Ð as they sate their curiosity with the advice and home movies of Max's kindhearted and patient mother, Mama Mirabelle. Whether it is on Max's jealousy of other animals being able to do things before him to Karla's frustration at being easy to spot with her stripes to nature's wild calls, Mama Mirabelle shares her home videos from around the world to answer those questions. The home videos are often live-action material from National Geographic and BBC Natural History Unit archives that show a number of wildlife topics, including animal calls, nocturnal creatures, camouflage, and animal skills. Mama Mirabelle's Home Videos is a fun and interesting way to teach kids about the animal kingdom.moreless
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    From the Top

    From the Top

    PBS Kids
    From the Top aired originally in January 2000. The radio show from NPR features musicians age 8 to 18 from all across the United States and Canada. Christopher O'Riley, host of both the radio series and the new television format, a famed pianist in his own right, works and performs with the young performers. Now in its second season, the thirteen half hour episodes feature some of America's most talented young classical artists. Each episode of From the Top features five artists, either soloists or chamber ensembles selected from a pool of thousands of applications. Since the beginning of the show, over 1000 talented artists have appeared on the program. Each of these young artists brings breathtaking talent and incredible passion to their performances while sharing the often inspiring stories of their lives. The success of the radio format has spawned the television program From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall. From the Top has outreach initiatives that help to bring classical music to classrooms and art programs nationwide.moreless
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    Design Squad Nation

    Design Squad Nation

    PBS Kids
    Design Squad Nation is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning children's show from PBS Kids that is produced by WGBH Boston. The show is hosted by engineering enthusiasts Judy Lee and Adam Vollmer. The ten episode series premiered in January of 2011 on PBS. Co-hosts Judy and Adam travel all around the world in this reality series helping children fulfill their wildest dreams through the use of engineering. Children are taught how to solve real world problems by using their imagination and by the formulation of gadgets. The show features their actual projects in process. Tune in to watch them create a park for skaters at an Indian Reservation, build a device that monitors air pollution in the south Bronx and design a playground in Nicaragua. They do not focus exclusively on science, one episode features them building a string instrument out of rubber bands and a shoe box. The show motto is "Ready, Set, Build!" Those with children will surely enjoy this unique and positive show.moreless