Beneath the Hollywood freeway, construction workers are finding real life ancestors of the mechanical monsters above and clues to a world 150 million years old. Using the Internet, they test parts and share designs with kids from around the world. An after school job doesn t have to be boring, not when you have computer skills. Viewers watch as students work on a race car for Baja Mexico. At Alameda Navel Air Stations, military hangars are converted into Technology Incubators.
Viewers see alternative energy vehicles that are changing the way people drive.
Their instruments are often unusual because they are rooted in the tradition of their country. The series is half-way between documentary and fiction. Each portrait is structured like a story. The still-living traditions, the instrument s history and the secrets of how it is made are revealed to viewers, at the same time as each child s unique story is told. The steel-drum is a fairly new instrument, made from old oil drums.