Design Squad
Design Your Own Water Park
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Design Your Own Water Park
Check out cool water park ideas from our community. Join Design Squad today to start sharing your own ideas!
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Design Squad
Design Your Own Water Park
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Check out cool water park ideas from our community. Join Design Squad today to start sharing your own ideas!
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Hey, I'm Nate from Design Squad.
Engineering is all about being creative and solving problems.
We're getting new creative designs from kids all the time on the Design Squad website.
Let's take a look.
So this design came in from Antarctica406.
The title is "Wacky Waves."
I'm seeing... it looks like a really big water park.
There's slides with ladders, and it looks like it's a wave pool with waves big enough to surf on.
That's cool.
That makes me think of, uh, kind of supersizing the idea even more.
I've been enjoying watching kite surfers recently.
They actually harness the wind to help them surf along the waves even faster.
What if you had a wave pool and you could surf on the waves in the water, but above the water, you've got fans big enough to make wind so you could kite-surf indoors at the same time.
I think we have to build this.
Now, the title of this one is called "Watery Splash!"
and it's from user FunForIce.
Description: "The shark mouth is if you want to get sprayed with water, "and the penguin mouth is for normal rides "with no special effects.
"People could ride in the little roller coaster carts used in the water park, too."
This combines some of my favorite things: roller coasters and water.
I actually really like the idea with the shark mouth that sprays the water out of it.
To move that much water that quickly, there's some fun engineering challenges, because you have to have a really big pump system.
You want it to really drive you down the slide.
We're not talking about a little squirt gun here.
We want more like a fire hydrant coming out of the shark's mouth.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
I'm very excited about this one.
Jellyfish13 sent in the idea called "Awesome!!!"
and it is.
Now, this is really cool, but I'm really struck by the amount of downward motion that we have.
Think about it: you start with a diving board.
Already, we're probably several meters above the water.
So we're way up high, we dive into the pool, then we go down one of three water slides, and then you get out with another slide.
This might be the fastest water slide system ever.
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