MAKE48 Season 4


#401: MEET THE TEAMS & TECHS! GET THE CHALLENGE. START THE CLOCK!
We learn the challenge and the rules. We meet our 10 teams with detailed back story. The teams learn the challenge and the rules and the whistle blows and the 48 hour countdown begins. It's all work and a lot of play! We dive into the creative process and the business of INVENTING a product. Throughout the competition we cut away to supporting educational back stories about team members, mentors, and tool techs that support our cast of characters throughout the 48 hour competition.

#402: THE SUPPLY RUN! START BUILDING
We continue to get to know our teams through personal back story. We also get to know our mentors and tool techs. The teams go on a one hour supply run in a hardware store to gather the materials to create their invention. To kick start the creative process mentors from the product industry interface with the teams to share some of the real world challenges and processes in product development. Our teams also have the support of product attorneys to make sure their ideas are new and fresh! Intercut event action with our educational supporting side stories.

#403 INNOVATE, BUILD, INVENT!, PT. 1
We dive deep into the hands-on brainstorming and prototyping stage. This is the meat of the series with lots of inventing, building, innovating and collaborating! By this time we really know each team and can personally connect with their efforts! It is a full on educational toy workshop with lots of team action.

#404 INNOVATE, BUILD, INVENT!, PT. 2
We dive deep into the hands-on brainstorming and prototyping stage. This is the meat of the series with lots of inventing, building, innovating and collaborating! By this time we really know each team and can personally connect with their efforts! It is a full on educational toy workshop with lots of team action.

#405 INNOVATE, BUILD, INVENT!, PT. 3
We dive deep into the hands-on brainstorming and prototyping stage. This is the meat of the series with lots of inventing, building, innovating and collaborating! By this time we really know each team and can personally connect with their efforts! It is a full on educational toy workshop with lots of team action.

#406: CLOCK IS COUNTING DOWN. TIME IS UP
The 48 hours is winding down and the teams are in the final stages of wrapping up their designs, making a product promo video and preparing their pitch to our event judges. Educational back story focuses on appropriate marketing and advertising standards and practices for a consumer product launch.

#407: THE TEAM PITCHES, PT. 1
Time's up. We cover more time with each pitch. In real time each pitch is 7 minutes. We reduce 10 pitches to about 4 minutes each. Time to pitch and present the product ideas to the panel of judges. We include personal back stage comments before and after the pitches from our teams. The judges will then deliberate behind closed doors (with cameras of course) and the winner will be announced!

#408: THE TEAM PITCHES, PT. 2
Time's up. We cover more time with each pitch. In real time each pitch is 7 minutes. We reduce 10 pitches to about 4 minutes each. Time to pitch and present the product ideas to the panel of judges. We include personal back stage comments before and after the pitches from our teams. The judges will then deliberate behind closed doors (with cameras of course) and the winner will be announced!

#409 FOLLOW OUR WINNING TEAM ON INDUSTRY FIELD TRIP!, PT. 1
Our winning team will be awarded a cash stipend and a educational product industry field trip and apprenticeship within the United States with their winning prototype in hand! Our journey takes the team on a front seat ride through the rigors of product design and prototyping. We also learn the special issues associated with consumer product testing and product safety, appropriate marketing rules and practices and more. Our winning team retains their patent and gain an incredible amount of knowledge and education about product development. Our public tv viewers get to go along for the lesson!

#410 FOLLOW OUR WINNING TEAM ON INDUSTRY FIELD TRIP!, PT. 2
Our winning team will be awarded a cash stipend and a educational product industry field trip and apprenticeship within the United States with their winning prototype in hand! Our journey takes the team on a front seat ride through the rigors of product design and prototyping. We also learn the special issues associated with consumer product testing and product safety, appropriate marketing rules and practices and more. Our winning team retains their patent and gain an incredible amount of knowledge and education about product development. Our public tv viewers get to go along for the lesson!


MAKE48 Season 4 – Interstitials

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Get to know host: Jimmy DiResta

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Get to know host: Xyla Foxlin

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Get to know tech: Stan Frenald

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Get to know tech: Whitney Manney

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Get to know tech: Travis Putman

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Get to know team: Bright Ideas

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Get to know team: World’s A-Part

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Get to know team: Team Propel

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Get to know team: PNW

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Get to know team: Mountain Minds

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Get to know team: Team RADium

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Get to know team: Elite Sistas

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Get to know team: InvenTROY

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Get to know team: The Bumble Bees

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Get to know team: Team Homestar