Skillsville
American-Canadian animated television series
Skillsville is an animated children's television series that premiered on March 3, 2025, on PBS Kids with funding from the United States Department of Education. The series is produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and Sphere Media.
The show is set in a gaming environment and is designed to help children develop executive function skills and learn about careers.
Premise
The series centers around a racially-diverse trio of children: Cora, Dev and Rae, who have everyday thoughts and ideas about future careers. Realizing that they can experience those in Skillsville, an open-world video game developed by Cora's mother, they touch a truncated octahedron-shaped game projector and say "Launch Skillsville" to prompt it to transport them into the game, where they take on their in-game personas (ParCora, Devosaurus, and Racer Rae) and try to work in various occupations to provide services for characters called Beeples, often with help from an anthropomorphic lavender pupperfly (dog-dragonfly hybrid) named Scout. When the children have a problem, they pause to give themselves time to come up with a solution, then unpause to implement it. At the end of every episode, they say goodbye to Scout (who responds with "Later, gamers!") and leave the game.
Characters
Main
Cora (also known as ParCora, voiced by Nissae Isen) is an African-American girl who wears a visor and a cyan vest when she plays Skillsville with Rae and Dev. She also wields a staff.
Rae (also known as Racer Rae, voiced by Jessy Yates) is a disabled white girl who uses a wheelchair.
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