About Team Hamster!

Team Hamster! is an interactive digital series that helps kids ages 4 to 8 think creatively and use engineering skills to solve problems with everyday tools. This series allows viewers to build, test, and redesign to save the day with hamsters Sadie, Mateo, and Tasha — classroom pets by day, secret engineers by night. Children step into the hamsters’ world through animated stories integrated with games. The stories set up problems that kids help solve by playing games using simple machines, tools, and creative thinking. The pint-sized hamsters show kids that “big or small, they can solve it all!”

This digital series integrates video and gameplay, with video acting as a narrative driver for the games, setting up compelling, character-driven problems that kids can solve. Team Hamster! includes three interactive games and five videos designed to teach players engineering and design skills in a way that is relatable to kids. Solutions to the problems presented throughout the digital series involve everyday materials, tools and simple machines kids can see in the world around them.

Team Hamster! is available on the PBS KIDS website, the PBS KIDS Games app, and the PBS KIDS Video app.