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Episode #201: CARDBOARD FURNITURE (CC)
Sit back and relax as the Design Squad teams create innovative, yet practical cardboard furniture for the home goods superstore IKEA. Furniture shoppers take a seat in the judges’ chair to decide the season premiere’s winning team. D-Squad Pro File: 25-year-old Jennifer Chua is a packaging engineer who works at Method, a company in San Francisco that specializes in nontoxic, biodegradable products. Jennifer makes high-quality products that are both good-looking and good for the environment. (Can also be seen at pbs.org/designsquad.)

Episode #202: PVC KAYAK (CC)
Jump on board as King Island Alaskan native Sean Gallagher challenges the Design Squad teams to build ten-foot kayaks using traditional design but with non-traditional materials.
D-Squad Pro File: Mechanical and design engineer Connie Yang is as extreme as the high-tech tents she designs for NEMO Equipment.

Episode #203: GREEN MACHINES (CC)
The teams go green as they work with the Food Project, an organization that creates social change through sustainable agriculture. Two young Food Project volunteers challenge the teams to design a compost lifter for their urban farm.
D-Squad Pro File: Industrial engineer Erin Gately creates new environmentally friendly products for Hewlett-Packard by ensuring that HP’s computer products are made with fewer non-recyclable materials.

Episode #204: GRAVITY BIKES (CC)
Watch the Design Squad teams in a head-to-head competition as they build high-speed, gravity bikes for Gravity Sports International champion Tom Whalen.
D-Squad Pro File: Gael Force Team 126 from Clinton, Massachusetts, is one of more than 1,300 teams that compete each year at the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition. Teams had just six weeks to design, build, and test a robot that raced around a track to move a 40-inch infl atable ball.

Enter the Design Squad Trash to Treasure Contest!
Enter online until August 31, 2008.

Recycle, reuse, and re-engineer everyday materials into an out-of-the-box invention. Your invention should:
 Move things or people or
 Protect the environment or
 Be used for indoor or outdoor play

GRAND PRIZE
 $10,000
 A Dell˙ laptop powered by Intel®
 A trip to Boston to see your design built

4 FINALISTS
Receive Dell˙ laptops powered by Intel® The winner and his or her product will appear on the Design Squad˙ show or Web site <http://www.pbs.org/designsquad> ! For ages 5-19.

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Episode #209: COAST TO COAST (CC)
FROM THE TOP AT CARNEGIE HALL goes behind the scenes with extraordinary young performers from both coasts. Fifteen-year-old Clare Yeo from New York, New York, plays the piano and often jokes that she has very small hands but plays very big pieces. Matthew Woodard, a 13-year-old composer and violinist from South Hadley, Massachusetts, attends concerts and lectures at Mount Holyoke College,takes composition classes at Smith and frequents Springfield Symphony concerts. The Luna Trio features 18-year-old violinist Jennifer Wey from Saratoga, California, 14-year-old cellist Tessa Seymour from Berkeley, California, and 16-year-old pianist Mayumi Tsuchida from Mill Valley, California. The trio will perform the Allegro from Paul Schoenfield's "Cafe Music."

Episode #210: MUSIC IS WHERE THE HEART IS (CC)
we learn that no matter how far from home we are, we always have a home in the things we love. Seventeen-year-old pianist Ronald Joseph grew up outside New Orleans, but temporarily relocated to New York in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to study at the Juilliard School before returning home to finish his senior year of high school. Ronald performs the second movement "Mardi Gras" from "The Enchanted Garden" by Richard Danielpour. Thirteen-year-old Nikki Yanofsky from Hampstead, Quebec, who tours North America as a jazz singer, used the first paycheck she earned from her singing to establish a cancer foundation. Nikki performs "Old McDonald Had a Farm" accompanied by Geoff Lang on drums,Rob Fahie on bass and John Sadowy on piano. Host Christopher O'Riley then accompanies 17-year-old violinist Allyson Tomsky from Brooklyn, New York, as she performs the first movement Allegro ben ritmato e decisco from Gershwin's Three Preludes to round out the episode.

Episode #211: JUMPING THROUGH HOOPES (CC)
13-year-old violinist Chad Hoopes from Shaker Heights, Ohio, and 17-year old violist Shundeena Beard from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, each perform a solo piece accompanied by Christopher O'Riley. Chad, who comes from a very musical family, is something of a local celebrity in his hometown, where he was recently featured in a Cleveland Indians television commercial. Shundeena draws a great deal of her musical inspiration from her severely disabled brother, to whom she is devoted. Chad and Shundeena join 17-year-old Rachel Sandman from La Canada, California, 17-year-old Patrick McGuire from Westford, Massachusetts, and O'Riley to perform the third movement Scherzo from Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44.

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Episode #2304: ENCOUNTERING SEA MONSTERS (CC) [content flag]
Science fiction writers have come up with strange depictions of alien life, but nothing to rival creatures with a beak like a parrot, no bones, three hearts, blue blood, skin that can change colors and arms growing out of lips. Scientists call them cephalopods (squid and octopus); they inhabit a world where cannibalism is a daily practice, mating can involve amputation, trickery is rife and size means everything - and nothing. Viewers follow a cameraman into the abyss and share his adventures with the planet's most cryptic and clever monsters.

Episode #2203: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE GRIZZLY (CC) [content flag]
Once on the edge of extinction, grizzlies have made a remarkable recovery. But this fierce predator is no longer content foraging in the back country. Today, bears are everywhere. And everyone has something to say about it. This program documents the return of the grizzly as a conservation success story that comes with a price.

Family Choice for July!
Episode #22032: OCEANS IN GLASS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM (CC)
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is recognized as one of the most significant and spectacular aquariums in the world because of its realistic presentations. Instead of exhibiting collections of animals,the Aquarium presents entire habitats, virtual slices of ocean that include 30,000 animals and plants. But how does an Aquarium work? What's the science behind the magic?