Squiz Kids

From lost socks to millions of followers, the Macfarlane brothers know where a homemade movie can lead.

Filmmakers and content creators Lachlan and Austin Macfarlane join Bryce under the Squiz Kids Spotlight to talk about making movies as kids, building an audience of millions and the hard work behind their wildly creative videos.

Their best advice for young creators? Don’t wait! Just start making stuff.

Plus, find out how budding filmmakers aged 15 and under can enter this year’s Trop Jr short-film competition. If you’ve got a movie idea bubbling away, now’s the time to grab a phone, tablet or camera and bring it to life for Trop Jr.

To enter, you’ll need to be aged 15 or under and create a short film of no more than five minutes featuring this year’s special signature item: a map. It could lead to buried treasure, point the way to another dimension, or simply appear somewhere in the background. It’s entirely up to you.

The deadline for entries has been extended to October 23, so get cracking!

⁠https://www.tropfest.com/tropjr⁠

Macfarlane Bros: When you give a kid unrestricted internet access

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjoWAiFqY⁠

Your daily kids news podcast.

New world map unveiled; Korea’s robot theme park; the Star Wars museum of storytelling; and soiled undies and kissing bears win science prize.

The familiar world map set to get a serious resize!

K-pop dancers, pianists and kickboxers... South Korea’s new theme park has robots doing the entertaining.

Buried undies, kissing polar bears and stolen baby lollies. Welcome to the wonderfully weird Ig Nobel Awards!

Star Wars creator George Lucas has turned his love of storytelling into a spectacular new museum in Los Angeles.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett.

Trop Jr: Short Film Competition for kids https://www.tropfest.com/tropjr

Macfarlane Bros: When you give a kid unrestricted internet access https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjoWAiFqY

In this Squiz Kids Shortcut for Fathers' Day, Christie and Bryce explore the wild world of animal dads. From devoted emperor penguins and pregnant seahorses to fathers whose parenting methods are a little more questionable.

They also travel through history to discover how the role of dads has changed and meet the many different people who can do the dadding in our lives.

So grab your dad, stepdad, grandad or another special father figure and listen together.

There’s a S’Quiz at the end!

Eight-year-old Ethan from Casula in Sydney wants to know how 3D printers work. Christie discovers how computer designs are sliced into thousands of incredibly thin layers, then built into real objects using everything from melted plastic and powdered metal to concrete and chocolate.

Along the way, we find out how 3D printing could help astronauts, hospitals and people living in remote communities.

Do you have a science question you'd like Christie to answer? Send it in to squizkids@thesquiz.com.au, and you might hear your answer in an upcoming episode.

A fun kids vs adults news quiz to test who’s been paying the most attention to the week in news.

For the full episode transcript, click here.