Design Squad
Bamboo: South Africa
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What can you build with this strong grass? See some ideas from kids in South Africa!
What can you build with this strong, woody grass? See some creative ideas from young engineers in South Africa.
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Design Squad
Bamboo: South Africa
Clip | 4m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
What can you build with this strong, woody grass? See some creative ideas from young engineers in South Africa.
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♪ ♪ Hi, I'm Deysi from Design Squad Global.
Kids in the U.S. and kids from Soweto, South Africa, were both asked to design and build something from bamboo.
Kids in the U.S. came up with a broom and shelter.
Now watch what kids in South Africa designed and built.
Or like something... and then maybe... (indistinct chatter) In our community, people always share the electricity.
So there's free wires just running through from another house to another house.
So a lot of children play and they die from touching the electric wires.
Okay, so we're trying to build like an electricity covering so that when the child plays, he or she cannot touch the electricity.
So that it cannot shock children.
And the electricity can go through to another house.
In our area in clinics, they don't have many places so that people can rest.
So we are going to make a clinic bed for the sick people.
And we're going to make a small one because we don't have enough materials.
(indistinct chatter) It's a trap for a rat.
We're making a trap for a rat so that it can't get in the garden.
The rat wants the food inside the garden.
This keeps the rat out, then it goes out.
We're doing this because we want to help the people in the community so that they can grow crops and have food for people.
We're just building a prototype.
This is a wire covering, so this one is representing a wire.
Going from another house to another house, so that's why we just build this to just show you that it's safe for children to play.
(indistinct chatter) We are making eight legs so that it supports the bed not to collapse.
ALL: Six...
Seven...
Eight!
(speaking local language) How could we connect the legs?
We are going to take these things, then we are going to connect them with the legs.
We're going to connect with the wire.
Then it's going to be like this.
The two walls are done.
We are cutting a door where the rat is going to get in.
ALL: It's in, then it's out.
Yes, the prototype is done.
This is Squeaky.
"I want food.
"I smell some food.
"Mm!
"I'm going to get my food.
"No, I'm lost, I'm lost...
I'm out here."
Then it cries, then it goes away.
I'm doing a house.
So because there's not much time, we're just going to build one house.
This is the wire here, so it goes through from one house to another house so it could help children to play safer and free.
We are building the part the mattress goes on.
(indistinct chatter) I think we are done.
ALL: Now we know four legs can support it.
Thank you.
Bye!
We are happy and we helped... the community!
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