Go-Karts Race to College
Winner gets a $10,000 college scholarship. Loser goes home.
Photography by Helen Tsai
Some high school students deliver newspapers or wash dishes to save money for college. The teens on the reality-based TV show Design Squad try to outbuild each other.
On our final episode of Season 2 we divided our young cast into two teams, and gave them identical sets of parts for off-road go-karts: front and rear suspension, steering, engine and rear drive train, seats, seat belts, and brakes. The teams had to design the chassis, roll cage, and side impact protection, taking into consideration how their designs would affect ...
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