"Previously on Shop Class"
You're building your own mini golf hole.
- All right. - Oh my God.
"Professional golf champion, Michelle Wie."
And the winning team is the Gold Team.
"Kim, Daron, and Marco secured their spot in the semi-finals."
- Feel the power. - "Now, three new teams"
- "take the spotlight." - That's so smart.
That's awesome.
"To turn these iconic school items,"
"lockers, a desk, and a slide, into skate park obstacles..."
- You get off my desk right now. - Awesome.
- "that look totally radical..." - That looks so cool.
"...and are a ton of fun to thrash."
All right. Whoa.
"A professional skateboarder will put Jonas Wray."
"With four spots up for grabs,"
"which of these teams will secure a spot in the next round?"
Oh my God.
Hey, guys, welcome to Shop Class.
Hey, everyone.
All right. We got three teams ready to start building: we got the Gold Team.
Hey, I'm Jenna, I'm 13, and I love woodworking.
I'm Maddox, I'm 12 years old, and I love building guitars.
I'm Trent, I'm a shop class teacher, and I specialize in furniture-making.
Next up, we got the Blue Team.
I'm Em, I'm 13 years old. I like building go-karts
and I like building bridges.
I'm Claire, I'm 14 years old, and I love robotics.
I'm Tami, and I am a construction and building trades teacher.
Rounding things off is the Green Team.
I'm Selah, I'm 12 years old,
and I love designing things and then actually making them.
I'm Chloe, I'm 11, and I really like rebuilding carburetors.
My name's Lance, I'm a wood shop teacher in Placerville, California.
Before you put your Shop Class talents to the test,
let's meet the skilled panel of judges
who will decide which one of your projects is top of the class.
Ladies and gentlemen, first up, the interior designer
and home decor expert, Ms. Lauren Makk.
Hi, everyone. Hi.
Next judge is an award-winning maker and architect, Brooks Atwood.
- Hi, hey, everybody. - Yeah.
And finally, please welcome guest judge,
senior architect from Walt Disney Imagineering, Audrey Aronoff.
Hey, everybody.
I'm Audrey Aronoff, I'm a senior architect at Walt Disney Imagineering.
I worked on the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run attraction.
All right. You guys ready to find out what you're building?
- Yes. - Okay.
Teachers, grab a push cart and bring it back to your workstation.
Tami, that's not the race part. You're excited!
You gonna have to move out of my way, because I got this!
Enthusiastic.
Okay. Teachers, hands on your tarps.
One, two, three.
"So, we have plywood, steel plates, steel tubing, wood, and a helmet."
When Lance pulls the tarp, I was like, "What?"
"There's so much stuff on this cart"
and I'm not exactly sure what we're gonna build.
"Seeing a lot of metal on this push cart got me super stoked."
I weld all the time, I teach welding in my class. It's gonna be great.
And I don't think that the Green and the Blue Team teems
were as excited about the metal as I was.
You're building your very own...
skate park obstacle!
- Yeah. - Awesome.
- Right? - Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I think the Gold Team has an advantage here,
because I built this half-pipe in my backyard
"and I love skateboarding. So I'm really ready for this challenge."
You know, sidewalk surfing began here in California
"and became popular in schoolyards and parks."
Today, skateboarding is everywhere, as we know,
but for this build, we're taking it back to school.
"We have three iconic school items here"
"we have a slide, a teacher's desk, and lockers."
Each team is gonna have to design and build a skate park obstacle
"that incorporates one of these iconic objects."
So, it's time for a good old-fashioned schoolyard pick,
and not the nose kind, Lance.
We drew teams at random, and Blue Team, you're up first.
- I guess we'll have to decide... - What do you thinking?
I I noticed the locker we can use...
- Yeah. - We're gonna take the locker.
- The locker? - Yes. It's unanimous.
Lockers are going with Blue.
The locker seems a little bit more challenging because it's unexpected.
Slide, a little more predictable.
"That desk, I couldn't figure out what to do with,"
so I definitely wasn't gonna have my team pick that.
- Green Team, you guys are up next. - Slide?
- I think... - Okay, go for the slide.
- We will take the slide. - We will take the slide.
Okay. Green Team is getting the slide.
I am super excited that we get the slide,
because it's a whole 'nother obstacle.
It's like a whole 'nother thing that they can do.
So, now Gold Team, of the items left, which one do you have your heart set on?
- We'll take the desk. - Are you sure?
- Yeah. - Yes.
The competition maybe thinks that they got something better, but honestly,
I think we are gonna be way better off with the desk than with the other ones.
- Teams, you ready? - Yes.
- Let's get building then. - Yeah!
- Okay. - All right.
- Okay. - Let's see what you got.
"Now that the teams have chosen which school item they'll be using,"
"they can start planning out how to turn it into a skate park obstacle."
As a Walt Disney Imagineer,
my main focus is to create happiness,
and to do that by designing a space where people really get immersed
"in an experience and feel true joy."
One of the coolest phrases I ever heard a ride engineer tell me,
"The best feeling you can ever have is seeing a child get off of your ride"
"and immediately run to get back in, because the amount of excitement"
"they've just felt meant they cannot wait to feel it again."
- Okay. - All right, so, this is a ramp...
that they go.
And this is gonna say, "Keep calm and skate on."
Oh, that's a great idea, "Keep calm and skate on."
And then the slide could be wavy down.
Come here. Let me show you my workshop.
"Chloe enjoys building all kinds of things."
One of the projects I'm most proud of is when I built this engine with my mom.
"And has also amassed over 100 awards in dance competitions"
- Yeah, depending on... - So, this should be, like, black.
Yeah. And we could do a green and an orange.
Well, the more colorful we make it, the more creative it'll be.
"The Green Team plans to create a curved ramp that will lead skaters"
"to a wavy ride down their tricked-out slide"
"and onto their elaborately twisted grinding rail,"
"all decked-out in colorful, bright graffiti art."
I'm thinking this one should be polka dots because, like, that's fun.
All right, so now, we can extend past this
and we can also have it wider.
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
Yes. So, make the locker bigger.
"Claire also works on robotics..."
I like building robots using metal, aluminum, steel, stuff like that,
- "things that are really sturdy." - "and as an academics competitor,"
"recently placing first in a local Brain Bee competition."
- Yeah. - We can go all the way up to 48-wide
- which is this... this... - 48? So that means we can have
a bigger half-pipe, that's cooler.
"Team Blue is aiming to create a whole skate park's"
"worth of elements in and around their school lockers"
"They're gonna put their half-pipe inside a wooden box"
"made to look like a locker shelf,"
"then they'll have a grind rail extend out one end"
"and add a flat ramp up one of the sides."
- One, two, three. - Wait.
High five by three! We got fifteen!
- This is the desk, I guess. - Okay.
- Here, like, the, um, the cabinets. - Okay.
We could, like, pull them out and make them stairs,
- and then, like, we could make, - Nice.
- like, a drop from it. A drop from it, - Oh, okay.
- like, there. - Yeah. Like, a quarter pipe there?
- Yeah. - "Jenna's used her woodworking skills"
"to help build shelters for wildlife."
This is the owl box that my dad and I made two years ago.
"She's also a competitive swimmer and soccer player."
If there's a rail on the backside
then if you jump up to this, you can stall or something on the rail,
and then go back down.
- That's a great idea. - Yeah.
"The Gold Team wants to turn their desk into a multi-sided ramp extravaganza,"
"complete with elevated rail and, for the less adventurous, some stairs."
The rail that we have right here we should also make go down
- the straight side. - Yes. Agreed, totally.
- Dude. - That way, you can like...
- I love it, I love it. We got this. - We got this.
- All right, let's get building. - All right, let's get building.
All right.
- Oh, cool. Grab that screwdriver. - This one?
- Yeah. work your way around it. - We want a piece...
Are you gonna blend it in or just drizzle on top of it?
- Drizzle on top. - Hi, Blue Team! Hi!
- How you guys doing? - "Judge Lauren is stopping by"
"to see how the teams are including the school objects in their designs."
- There's a plan! I love this. - Yeah. We've, like, we got blueprints.
We got, like, designs and everything.
One of the things I find myself doing as an interior designer
is creating an entire design around one single inspiration object.
"I wanna see how these teams are able to incorporate their school item"
seamlessly into their overall design.
So, tell me about what's going on. How are you gonna use the lockers?
Okay. So, we're doing a half-pipe inside.
Yeah. And then we also gave an opportunity to grind right through here.
So, we're gonna have, like, multi-layers.
So, like, multiple people could be on the same thing at the same time.
What I really love about this is that there's so many multiple places
for the skaters to skate. So, it's super ambitious,
I know you guys can do it, if you really get to working hard, so...
- I'm gonna let you go and finish off. - All right.
Lauren's visit was super encouraging and inspiring,
"because she liked the way we were designing everything,"
and since she's a decorator, this really inspired me
to keep doing what I was doing.
On the side, there's gonna be a quarter pipe, and then a rail across.
- A rail across the desk. - And then there's gonna be
- a straight ramp on this side. - Yes.
Okay. I'm gonna tell you right now, just because you're not really
doing anything too crazy with the desk, make it awesome.
- You know, like, make it stand out. - We might make the cabinets...
We're gonna pull them out at different lengths and make them stairs
that you can walk up to... to the ramp.
That's actually really cool, because it gives a little bit of
- something extra, you know what I mean? - Yeah, yeah.
Lauren is really impressed about the drawer stairs,
so we're really gonna emphasize that idea
so that she knows that her ideas matter to us.
Let's go over here and take a look at your painting a little bit, okay?
It's looking like a little ouchy happened.
- Yeah. Oh, this is on purpose? - Yes.
- Okay, okay, cool. - It's on purpose.
Just keep... If it's purposefully supposed to be there,
keep the consistency going in the design.
What I don't want it to look like is to look sloppy,
- you understand what I'm telling you? - Yeah.
- All right, guys, good luck. - Awesome.
All right, guys.
It's, like, the perfect size and everything.
- Oh, anything for you, guys. - Thank you.
The most exciting thing about this challenge is that it's, like, big-scale.
Just paint the outside of it.
- Don't have to paint the inside, okay? - Yeah.
This is really fun and a new experience for me.
- That looks cool, right? - If we add, another one over there
- that's, like... raspberry. - Yeah.
- Okay. There's three, so, one, two... - Yeah. We're gonna need a bunch more.
It's so nice to see something completely from scratch
and see it turn into this amazing thing.
- There we go, that's closed. - All right, let's do it.
- Grab another one, let's do another. - Yes. Just for support.
"The teams ramp down as day one comes to an end,"
"but for Green Team, it's one step forward and two steps back."
Judge Lauren said that it looked a little messy,
and there were splats everywhere,
- so we're painting it black now, and... - We're restarting.
Then the other colors will pop, and we will have, like, four colors, probably,
and stick with those four colors the whole time.
I think the main thing tomorrow is stairs?
- Yes. - Right? And rail.
Yeah. You just painted your whole hand.
Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness.
Is it... Oh, yes!
"It's day two, and now that most of the ramp construction is complete,"
"it's time for the teachers to grind..."
The trick is to do it while the paintbrush is still kind of wet.
"while the students bring their artistic designs to life.
You got paint all over it.
Yes, I was painting and oopsies were made.
So, now with this, precision is gonna be, like, the key.
"Outside of Shop Class, Tami volunteers as a STEM Teacher."
From learning how to frame up custom walls to building amazing cabinetry.
"And educates students, parents, and teachers"
"about careers in the skilled trades industry."
Very nicely done.
"I've been working on the checkerboard,"
and we're going to use it as our ramp for the skate on the side.
We're originally gonna make it look like skater shoes,
you know, like an actual, like, chessboard-like checkerboard.
- I'll start painting. - Alright.
Make sure we got all our marks in, so we know
- where to paint. - I'll start.
Right. So, I'm gonna cut the two-by-fours to put inside of here.
"In addition to building, Maddox plays guitar..."
So, this is the guitar that I made right here.
"and has also received a presidential award for academic excellence."
Yes, correct.
We really wanted to make these stairs into something really kind of cool
and industrial...
Don't screw them in, just cut them first and let's test it.
that looked like these stairs had just been made out of drawers
and there was nothing holding them up other than the drawers.
Yeah, I screwed this one in already. It's all good.
Oh, nice. Cool. Great. Dude, awesome job. Well done.
Thanks.
I should've thought this through a little better.
"Lance has earned an award for leadership and education..."
Hey, I wanna show you one of the projects that me and my students
used as a fundraiser. It's a festival chair.
"and is also a three time Industrial"
"and Technology Education Competition winner."
- Just doesn't wanna come... - My God!
The slide is incredibly difficult to work with.
It's heavy, it's impossible to bend.
I felt like I was wrestling an alligator, taking that thing apart.
And it was not easy.
Here's the curves that will go underneath to give us that whoosh.
That's awesome.
We didn't wanna let it not get modified.
That's, I think, a big part of the challenge.
So, we will do the modification, and hopefully, it'll be good enough.
- This is so fun. - It's so fun.
"Em is an inventor..."
This is the first thing I've made with my dad. It is a prosthetic arm.
"and earned a grant from Young Entrepreneurs Academy"
"for his invention of a soft, detachable visor for bike helmets."
It's not checkerboard, but...
- it's pretty good. - It looks cool.
But when we took off the masking tape,
there was more white space than black space.
"There was another step that was supposed to be taken"
"to complete the checkerboard pattern."
I kind of like the way it looks right now, kind of like an illusion.
It kind of looks a little... It pops out.
We're like, "Hey, that looks cool, it's like an optical illusion."
So, we decided to kind of keep that.
Hey, Em, we were supposed to wait for the paint to dry
before we take off the tape.
It's part of the order of operation. But that's okay, Em, no big deal.
"As an Imagineer,"
I think Shop Class is a really, really cool avenue
for kids to start seeing how to problem-solve,
"because I think that is the basis of design,"
not to mention losing a fear of construction and building.
"All right, all right."
Feel the power.
- I need four more spacers... - Four more spacers.
plus another piece of plywood.
We can make this, like, look really neat, and then we add some splashes.
- What do you think of this? - I think it looks great.
That could be neat.
Yeah. I spelled boarding wrong, how fun.
"Selah is a fierce competitor on the softball diamond..."
"I have a very creative side and I love painting."
"and has won trophies with her all-star team."
So, yeah, I'm gonna paint it black,
and then I'm just gonna paint over it after it dries.
- It's so fun. It's perfect. - Yeah.
- Hey, Blue Team. - Hi. Hey.
- How are you guys doing? - Great.
"For Judge Brooks, these builds must be skateable"
"if they're to fulfill their function."
I just finished a Children's Museum in Los Angeles,
and it combining art and architecture and engineering.
"So, what I to seeing the teams coming up with in their skate park"
is something that's a wow factor, but also something that's functional.
So, we're using lockers, like, for there.
- It's safety precaution. - Oh, up there.
- Yeah. - This locker will actually stand up
and it'll be like a little safety rail. Plus, it doubles the storage.
It's literally a locker; we're putting stuff in there.
I got it. I really love this artwork.
- It's incredibly beautiful. - Yeah.
It's very indicative to Southern California.
Bring some of your own personality.
I'm a little bit concerned for Blue Team about the lockers
and how they're incorporating that into the piece.
The artistic expression is off the charts, the creativity is really great.
They seem to be working really well as a team.
So, just a couple of things to tighten up.
I think the obstacle looks really cool, I'm really impress with the painting,
and I actually love old furniture,
but I also love to modify it in cool ways.
I actually like the stairs as, like, a functional furniture piece.
I love the fact that the desk is still recognizable
as a classic furniture piece but then also with a twist.
- Your team has the slide. - We do.
How did that influence your design process?
It's a little hard to make that different.
You are absolutely right.
The Green Team has really interesting details for skateboarding
like the metal angle on the edge of one of the platforms.
And they also embedded the tube as a grinding tube on the top of the ramp.
Really interesting detail.
What's the biggest challenge so far that you have making this thing?
Attaching the slide onto here and keeping it se...
What do you think? How are you gonna do that?
I've done this before. So, on my playhouse, I attached a slide once.
So, it's gonna be, like, an inch long board that has holes in it
that you can just easily bolt.
- So, you keep that nice and flush. - Yeah.
That's a good architectural detail. Nice work.
Yeah.
Jenna, give me your opinion on this.
So, the idea this morning was to get this to kind of look like
it was just drawers kind of floating, right?
But I don't see any way we're gonna be able to hide those two-by-fours.
We thought that it looked cooler if the drawers were stairs floating.
We could just do the first idea, 'cause...
- Which is plywood along the whole side? - Yeah, because that makes it, honestly,
look like stairs even more.
We did our best to try and kind of make that work for us, and in the end,
- I think wasted a ton of time. - Wasted a lot of the day.
I think we might go back to the original idea, which is the...
plywood on thee sides to make it look like a staircase.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Sick. - Does that sound good?
Yeah.
- Awesome. - We could put your skateboard here.
And we keep mine and his on the side. And yours could be here.
Brooks added a really great suggestion which was to personalize our build.
- It looks pretty cool. - That looks really cool.
And that's our own personal touches.
- Ah huh. It's us. - All right?
Just don't forget to sign your name on it.
There you go. Now push in it. There we go.
Oh, that's so smart!
Of course, I messed up. Oh, my gosh.
It's fine, it looks cool like that.
I don't think that was supposed to happen.
Okay. The stairs are working.
We finally figured out these stairs. If I could do this all over again
the first thing I'd change about our design is those stairs.
"When Trent isn't teaching wood shop and welding..."
The best part about the thing is that when you are done making it,
we get to go drive it around.
"he's busy creating art in his studio."
"The teams' skate park obstacles need to look great, but also be fun to ride,"
"so a surprise guest is stopping by to make sure they're skateable."
- How's it going, you guys? - Hey. Hi.
My name is Jonas Wray. I'm a pro skateboarder.
"I've been invited, down to Shop Class to check out all these builds"
these kids are working on. Should be a good time just to see
what the different teams have created for me to enjoy.
- Is this a school desk? - This is a school desk, yeah.
If you look around the other side, we got some stairs on the other side, so...
- Some stair cabinets. - you know, if you're not as advanced,
and you wanted to walk up and start on the coping, or the...
- Oh, cool. nice. - rail and drop in, you could...
How about the bottoms where, where it comes into the ground?
That looks pretty abrupt. You'd have to like, ollie to get there and
- and then go up, so... - It needs some work.
- Yeah. - How would you prefer to skate on this?
It's... It's gonna be a challenge.
This is low compared to how high this is gonna get you.
So you have to kind of skip, which is pretty challenging.
I'd just wanna go real fast one way
- and just fly over the whole thing. - Yeah.
That looks like the most fun of this obstacle.
So, this one right here is gonna come down with the transition
- and then it goes into a bank, right? - Right.
- So it goes... right here... - Is it too steep?
Well, it's kind of hard to do a down and then a dip. It might toss you,
and if it tosses you, you're gonna hit that transition.
- So... - I see.
Maybe back it up a little bit, if you have more wood?
- Okay. - Okay.
Luckily, Jonas came and saw our design, because no one in Team are skaters,
and we're just looking at it, like, in a way,
"but then he really gave us a link to reality "
and show that the ramp was a bit too steep for even experienced skaters.
You need at least the length of a skateboard
but I'd go two, just so you can get
- ready for the next thing. - Okay.
So, we're using skateboards as units of measurement, so that's great.
Hopefully, we can fix this thing, and he'll be able to skate on it.
Looks fun. It's awesome. I love the bump.
Jonas just saw our slide, and he thinks it'll be so much fun to ride.
So, this is another part right here that we have that's a nice grind rail
that is another transitional piece.
Okay. Where is the grind box?
- We haven't decided. - It's after everything? Okay.
Well, the, the day's coming close.
- I know. - Yeah.
Jonas is a bit confused about how our design is gonna come together,
- but I am too. So I'm a little nervous. - Yeah.
Well, we'll have to think through how you would transition from that to this.
- I have to think that through, too. - All right.
We're tackling an awful lot. We've got all these great pieces,
and now, we're running out of time to figure out how they fit together.
- Thank you. - One more of these.
There's so much to do, and I really don't know
how we're gonna get this finished at this point.
Okay. We got some work to do, guys. We got some work to do.
All right. We are, like, in the final phase of our build.
I feel like I'm in school now, just, like, opening the locker and...
- I love it. - What are we gonna do today?
- We... - Plan. Plan.
- are gonna need to plan. - "It's the final day of the build,"
"and the teams are rushing to pull their skate park obstacles together."
Come look at this drill bit.
They comes to a point, because what we're trying to duplicate is the...
the round head of this screw,
so if we drill it out with this first, this'll sit nice and flush here.
- Okay. - It's called a countersink bit.
As a teacher, it's fun to connect with the girls.
So, you don't have to drill very far...
It's so great to have that creative mind spinning and, and working with them.
just about the size of the head of the screw,
so when you guys drive these, they'll go right in.
Awesome.
- And then they're flush. - So there's, like, no bumps.
I'm gonna go outside. I'm gonna get some wood for us.
I'mma get those pieces ready.
I think the layout of our design needs to be tweaked,
especially after talking to Jonas.
He said we should extend it to the size of about two skateboards.
And so that's what we're doing.
Is that the extra platform?
This is really not the time to be adding things to the project,
but we're gonna have to. I was feeling good about time, but now...
So this is, like, a straight piece, but it's, like, just the same height
as our, um, locker sides. So it's just, like, a little extra space.
We have a whole new platform to build, and we still have to paint it.
I'll change that color later. We'll paint over it. I don't like that color.
It wouldn't be very hard to make it taller.
I can just break these and make it taller.
Jonas thinks our grind rail is a little too short
because you'll get too much speed out of the ramp to land on the bar.
And as much as I hate to do this at this hour, at the end of the game
I gotta take this thing off and give it taller legs.
But man, even though I gotta redo this rail,
it is still so much easier than redoing stairs.
- All right. Stretch our line... - Good. Should we do it even tighter...
And you're gonna snap it.
- Perfect. - Look what we got!
- Oh, my gosh. It's finished. - We got it all attached!
Standing on your head, sliding down the slide, sitting and hanging out.
It's just supposed to be a fun little touch.
Whoa. That's a lot bigger than I thought it was.
Holy...
Okay.
"With only hours to go, the teams get one last surprise."
- Oh, we have a new guest with us today. - Yes!
"A visit from Imagineer Audrey."
So, how does this box relate to your actual, like, obstacle?
- This is part of our half-pipe. - Okay.
When, the skater Jonas saw our halfpipe,
he said that it was a bit too steep for him to skate.
And I guess one important thing of a skate park obstacle
- is to make it skateable. - Yeah.
So we had to add this extra platform.
That's good. 'Cause everything in my world of design,
I believe in form follows function. And take your initial idea
and adapt it to make it so it really is a cohesive design.
It sounds very interesting. I'm excited to see it.
- It's gonna be great. - Yeah.
When you're looking at this, something that'd be really cool to think about
and keep going forward with is you have all these opportunities
and different ways you can use it, which I think is awesome.
It's good to have a little bit of wayfinding and telling,
so someone who is new to skating would feel comfortable coming up
and being like, "Where am I supposed to go? What am I supposed to do?"
I feel like that's the next step for what you guys are gonna take this to.
- But... it looks awesome. - That's a great idea.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
So, something cool that you can think about, since you have
a very distinct color palette, which I love, it's beautiful...
you could start utilizing it to maybe discuss
all the different ways you can use the slide because...
I actually have a board right here that says some...
- We got this side. - this side
that says some fun ways to play, if you look over.
- There are some diagrams here. - There's some drawings.
Perfect. It's just taking what you guys done already,
but you've got a really solid base, and how do you build up on that
- to fully tell the story? - 'Kay!
- Awesome. - Thank you for stopping by.
Of course.
I think we could do some arrows, maybe, and some suggestions.
- I'm thinking in the middle. - Okay.
- All right - Okay.
Builders, you have one hour.
Oh, my God. How?
- Yep. One hour. - Come on.
We're putting up our skateboards that we worked really hard on with glue.
Time's running out, and we don't even have a deck on the half-pipe,
"so we've gotta get moving."
You can't really skate on, like, wooden boards.
Oh, that's looking nice. Super cool.
- Yeah. We gotta hurry. - We have to hurry. Come on.
My head was like...
- Let's get working. - Yes.
- You got this. Come on. - Yeah.
I really don't know how this is possibly gonna get done today.
- Just get a little bit of paint here... - Paint?
and a little there, and then we'll call it good.
Ten minutes.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, man. We have so much to do. I don't know if we're gonna finish it all.
- Oh, this is so cool. - Let's hope this sticks.
- These red arrows look amazing. - Yeah, they do.
- Almost done. - Yeah.
- Ten, nine, - Get the drill. Get the drill.
- eight, seven, six, - Right here, right here, right here.
- five, four, three, two, one. - 'Scuse me, 'scuse me.
Tools down.
We did it, we did it, we did it!
I think the finished look looks great, it's all put together.
All the color schemes works out. Looks just like a locker.
I really like it.
"Could always get more elaborate,"
and there's always something else rolling around, or some other request,
but I think we really got what we wanted to get done finished.
- All right. Good job, little lady. - Good job.
I'll just say, I think all your obstacles look awesome. Truly.
I mean...
But are they fun to skate? To help me answer that question,
ladies and gentlemen, professional skateboarder Jonas Wray.
Okay. Stop showing off, Jonas.
Builders, over the last three days, you've designed and built
your own skate obstacles.
So we're gonna check 'em all out. Let's start with the Gold Team's. Yeah?
- Yeah. - Is that cool?
Trent, talk us through this obstacle. What are we looking at here?
So, we started with a teacher's desk.
And we wanted it to remain intact as a teacher's desk.
And so we used it as a platform to attach our rail.
We used the drawers to create a staircase
so that if you're a beginner and just wanna walk up and drop in, you can.
Skating was kinda born out of counterculture,
and our goal was to kind of rebel against the teacher
and, and skate up and over the teacher's desk, right?
It's cool. Okay. Everyone, clear the area.
It's time for Jonas to christen your creation.
- I'm off. - Let's go for it. All right.
Jonas Wray, you get off my desk right now. I mean...
Where's the medic, by the way?
Oh, don't worry.
- That was awesome. Really cool. - Thanks. That was fun.
Does it compare to other obstacles and other ramps?
It looks... it looks familiar. But it doesn't feel familiar.
- Okay. - It's a little lumpy and...
- Oh, okay, so you want it smoother? - Yeah. Yes. You need it very smooth
in order to access different parts of the box.
So it's not as righteous as it could've been.
- It's fun. I'll take it home. - Yeah?
If you guys aren't gonna use it.
Okay. Gold Team, great job.
- All right, Blue Team, you guys are up. - All right. Let's go, guys!
Okay, talk us through this obstacle.
What we did was we used the sand and surf inspiration on the inside
because, of course, you know that street skating evolved from surfing.
- Of course. - So we wanted to make sure
- our ramp kinda represented deck shoes. - Yes.
- All right? - We made a fake locker
out of wood, since it's bigger and we can do more stuff with that.
Oh, cool. So where's the real locker?
The real locker... That's the half of the real locker.
Oh, that's half of it? Okay.
And the other part is what we used to tie everything together.
And here's the back of the locker right here.
- Wow. Okay. - We used the locker to the fullest.
It looks really cool, and I love how you've incorporated
- all the history and the art. - Thank you.
Well, let's see how it skates, though. Because that's the, the real test.
- Yeah. 'Cause that's, that's the goal. - Okay.
Go for it.
Yes, yes, yes!
Yes!
- Nice. - Yes, yes, yes!
Well, thank you so much, Jonas. What are your thoughts
in terms of the skateability?
Well, the first obstacle we did was... it looked like a skateboard obstacle.
- Right. - This one does not look like
a skateboard obstacle, but it's more fun.
I just like leaping into the air,
and this does have structure that you can leap into that air.
Thank you, Jonas. Thank you, Blue Team. Great job.
- Thank you. - All right. Green Team, you're up.
- Let's come on down. - Yeah!
All right. Tell me about this, Selah. What are we looking at here?
We wanted a fun activity going right into the slide
and make the slide even more exciting.
And it says, "Keep calm and skate on." Where'd you get that?
- I thought of it because... - It's classic Chloe.
Yeah. Tell me about the hill that you put on the slide.
Lance thought of the idea to pick the metal up.
Green Team, I love the design.
- Thank you. - It looks really cool.
I think it's time for Jonas to do what he does best.
Yeah!
All right!
Nice.
- That was fun. - Oh, so good.
So good.
How did that feel? It looked like you were having fun.
- It looked like you were doing it. - It is. It's really fun.
It is very challenging. The slide is very skinny,
and if they rub the side, you get twisted and thrown.
The different ramps have not enough layering.
You could feel every single ramp on the way down.
With proper layering, you could actually fly out and fly in.
Gotcha. Judges, join me in the middle,
we're gonna have a little huddle-up and talk about what we just saw.
You guys, keep calm. Just keep calm and look on.
"The judges get some final thoughts from Jonas Wray"
"before they turn their attention back to the teams."
- Have a good one. - Thanks, Jonas. Thank you very much.
Yeah, thank you.
- Okay. Lauren. - Yes.
Tell me about the Gold Team.
Gold Team, you guys did an incredible job.
I love the colors. You really went for it, right?
Every little angle, I get a little bite of something different,
and I really thought that was super unique.
And I love how you really incorporated the stairs as a part of the design.
It's a really fun way to kind of reinvent the wheel.
And I remember you guys were kinda struggling with those drawers,
and you actually made it come together, so I love that.
My only note, I think you could approach it from the right and the left,
but I wish I could've approached it from the back, you know,
with the bar being there. I just kind of can't get to it.
But that's a design element that you can figure out.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
I love that you took something incredibly iconic
like the school desk and reused it and repurposed it in a totally new.
I also love the colors and the paint
I mean, it's just an overall wow right off the bat.
Some of the ramps and the angles might have been adjusted a little bit more,
so you could catch some more air, maybe engage with the ramp a little bit more.
But to take something so iconic like the desk
and using it in your skate park is so cool.
- Love it. It is really... Yeah. - Thank you.
Audrey, what are your feelings on Gold Team?
Well, I do really like the colors 'cause my hair does match it.
But primarily, I really liked how you incorporated the desk
as your total foundation for your structure.
You can really tell that it's, like, essential to the process.
I think that's fantastic. I also love how you know how to use it.
There's an instinct of, like, "Which ramp is gonna be steeper?"
"Which one I should try first?" If I'm a newbie, what should I do?
Let's go on to the Blue Team. Brooks?
Well, right off the bat, the fact that Jonas caught major air
off this checkerboard ramp.
- I mean, that was so cool. - That was fun to watch.
Really awesome. I love the overall layout of all the piece.
There's so many different levels that you can interact with,
and the lockers really kind of bring you in,
and it's just overall super impactful and really beautiful.
- Thank you, thank you. - Thank you so much.
It's very, very well-constructed, and it's extremely sturdy.
Like, Jonas was able to get so much air on it,
because he could really push off all the ramps, and that was very impressive.
I do like the use of the lockers on the side,
but maybe have them more integrated.
To bring them in and make it really more a part of the obstacle itself,
fully attached, and actually hop up onto it would be awesome.
Well, guys, you did an incredible knockout job.
I love the attention to detail that you put on the sides
with your skateboards, and your name,
really added a personalized touch so I knew who built this project.
Audrey, our Imagineer, what do you think about Green Team's design?
What I really liked about the Green Team's design,
it looked almost like an entire park's layout.
So it had a lot of places to go, things to ride on, things to check out.
When I saw when you had chosen the slide, I was a little scared for you,
and I thought it would be very intimidating to ride on.
And when I saw Jonas ride it and saw how much fun he was having,
- I was really, really impressed. - Thank you.
Green Team, you guys did a great job, too! Hats off to you.
But let me also say this too. The last 10% is always the hardest part.
And I loved the fact that you had that extra ramp
so that we could get some momentum, but I would've loved to see it
be painted to really be a little more cohesive.
- Let's go to Brooks. - It's absolutely beautiful
and stunning. The black with the color pops.
And right away, I'm thinking fluid dynamics and going up the ramps
and how awesome it was that you built a half-pipe.
But again, I would think about how smooth the surface is.
So maybe another layer of the plywood, and he would just drop down
and it would be really smooth, right?
The fact that you also took apart the metal slide,
took all the rivets off, found out that there was multiple layers of metal,
and that you reused those to create that wave is really cool.
I think we're all in an agreement that they all look awesome.
However, as you know, there's only one team moving on to the semifinals.
I am terrified. I don't know what's gonna happen, and I'm really scared.
There's nothing we can do now. He skated our obstacle, and he liked it!
That was so awesome because he thought it was fun,
and he would've skated it more,
- so that was cool. - Did you see when he launched over?
- so that was cool. - That was the coolest thing ever.
But I... it was so cool.
He was able to skate every element we created. The desk looked awesome.
- Yeah, it did. - "And it all held together"
and didn't fall apart. So I feel pretty confident
that we're going to the semifinals.
The judges have deliberated, and the winning team is...
the Green Team.
No way. No way.
- I'm so excited. - It feels amazing that we won.
No way!
"Lance, Chloe, and Selah earned an A for their skate park obstacle"
"and are advancing to the semifinals."
Blue Team and Gold Team, you're not moving forward, but...
you are going home with something awesome.
For all your future builds, a fully stocked rolling tool chest.
Nice.
Green Team, congratulations. We'll see you in the semifinals, okay?
We'll be there! All right!
Semifinals, here we come.
Great job. Nice job.
And then to a five for me.
Boink.
I'll see you soon.
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