Previously on Shop Class...
You're building your very own bridge.
- Yeah! - You just hit 2500 pounds.
And the winning team is, the blue team.
Really? Yes! Yay!
Morgan, Henry and Gabriel secured their spot in the semifinals.
- Ooh. That would be cool. - Great. It's great.
- Yes. - Now, three new teams
step into the spotlight to put a modern twist on an outdoor classic.
I love that this thing is freaky.
"Evolving the design to make it more functional and interactive."
"Then will put their builds to the test with what I like the boulder bash."
- Bring on the boulder. - Bring on the boulder.
"With two spots remaining, which of these teams"
"will secure their place in the semifinals?"
This door? This door?
- Whoa. Ok. - Wow. Sweet.
When I first walked in, there was so much to look at
and so many possibilities in front of me.
Hi everybody, welcome to Shop Class.
How's it going?
All right. Great new faces.
Three teams have come to compete, but only one team will conquer and move on.
The winning team will advance to the semifinal round and be one step closer
to earning the title Shop Class champs and taking home an epic grand prize.
All right, we got the green team.
My name's Sean. I'm 11, almost 12 and I love building go-carts.
My name is Ruth. I'm 11 years old
and I love to 3D print and craft.
I'm Chris. I'm the shop teacher in Hillsborough, California.
I have a fine arts background and a masters in furniture design.
- "We got the blue team." - I'm Nolan. I'm 13
and I love everything about woodworking.
I'm Giana. I'm a Shop Class teacher in Sacramento, California,
and my specialty is metal working.
My name is Kelly. I'm 14 years old.
I'm very into designing robotics
and I love pretty much everything about shop class.
"Rounding things off is the gold team."
My name's Brittany. I teach students everything
from woodshop to 3D printing to robotics.
My name is Ellie. I'm 12 years old.
I love building and decorating and making things look pretty.
I'm Hugh. I'm 12 years old
and I really like robotics and 3D modeling.
Thank Hugh for being here.
Okay, well before we put your Shop Class talents to the test,
let's meet the skilled panel of judges who will be deciding your fate.
Yeah.
Look at that.
First up is an award-winning maker and architect, Brooks Atwood.
Our next judge is an interior designer and home decor expert,
- Ms. Lauren Makk. - Hi, guys.
And finally, please welcome guest judge
from Walt Disney Imagineering, Todd Neubrand.
I'm Todd Neubrand. I'm a dimensional designer.
Dimensional design is also known as the model shop.
It's often the first opportunity to get a 3D look at some new ideas.
I've worked on Splash Mountain for Walt Disney World in Florida
and Port Discovery for Tokyo DisneySeas.
All right. Are you ready to find out what you're doing?
- Yeah. Yeah. - Teachers,
grab a pushcart and bring it back to your workstation.
Okay.
All right. Teachers,
on the count of three, I would like you to pull those tarps.
- Are you ready? - Right?
- I know, I know! - Yeah, all right!
One, two, three.
You see a bunch of wood, some loose screws.
You are going to re-imagine your very own picnic table.
There you go.
I know your minds are blown.
Everyone around me is kind of giddy and happy
because that's a very fun thing to construct and make your own.
So, for this challenge,
each team is tasked with contemporizing the picnic table.
It should be a true outdoor centerpiece that reflects your team's personality.
It should provide seating for all three judges
and have an interactive element, okay? So, make it do something cool.
You'll have just three full days to build your picnic table.
Using the classic picnic table kit, screws and wood.
In addition, each team will be provided a set budget
to purchase additional items to enhance their builds.
Each picnic table will be evaluated and tested for functionality
and durability, since, you know it's intended to be used outside.
- Are you ready to start building? - Yeah. Yes.
Okay. One, two, three. Let's get building.
Okay.
As an architect, we get to go in and rethink everything.
What is a house, what is a skyscraper, what is a children's museum?
What I'm looking for here is to see how the teams
completely re-imagine something as mundane as the picnic table.
- Yeah. - So, it starts like this,
a normal picnic table. And you can flip it over.
What if we made it a ping pong table?
- Heated seats. - Oh, heated seats.
I think the hardest thing about this challenge
will be coming to a decision with my teammates.
- I was thinking about, like, a train. - Lights underneath it.
- We could make it a boat. - A sandbox.
- Wraparound seating. - Glow-in-the-dark paint.
- Like a chariot. - An igloo.
- A lazy Susan. - Both of us were talking about,
wheelchair accessibility, so let's do that.
We decided to build a picnic table
with cushioned benches, and it has backs to it.
"In addition, the Green Team's table will be uniquely shaped,"
"making it wheelchair accessible, and they'll have"
"an interactive centerpiece, a series of gear-like lazy Susans."
I think it's gonna look pretty cool in the end.
"In addition to building, Ruth enjoys inventing."
I've just recently started getting into reusing items
like cans and bottles and making cool things out of that.
And placed third in a science fair
"for her motorized model of the solar system."
So, you see a table, it's like this,
but on one end, there's a flap that's down and then comes up like a wing.
Being an interior designer is all about pushing boundaries and limits.
And that's what I'm looking for today.
We all know what a basic picnic table looks like...
but today I want to see it re-imagined and reconfigured.
You're more wanting to add stuff onto a regular table.
- Yeah. - And not making the table different.
It'll be quicker and we can get more points
for functionality possibly, if it's that table.
I didn't want to push the kids to do stuff they didn't want to do,
but we gotta add some more creative elements.
I think the reusing part's good, but not just reassembling a bench.
- Yeah. - We got to change it up.
"When Giana's not teaching..."
These lovely scraps of metal over here
are currently waiting to be welded into sculptures.
"You can find her in the metal shop
"creating artwork of all shapes and sizes."
I'm thinking... we could add some steel.
I come up with a design element that, of course, has metal in it.
If we add a pyramid, steel's magnetic,
and we can work with like, a magnetic idea.
I wanted to try to get the kids to see the interactive part of it,
as far as it being magnetic.
- I am not cool with that as much. - Okay. Yeah.
- All right, that's fine. - My group has decided
to build a modernized picnic table.
"The Blue Team's design will feature a large wing"
"for food preparation, a lazy Susan,"
"and one long bench that can be separated into four chairs."
All right. When did we get to start? Let's start.
- It has to hold three of our judges. - Mm-hmm.
But for each of the judges, we should do, like, a design.
- Maybe-- For her-- - Oh, like a specific thing.
It needs to be more than just a regular picnic table.
It needs to have interactive elements.
How are you guys thinking about the interactive part of this table design?
So, I was thinking maybe we can do chess or checkers.
Okay. So we would have like a--
a thing that can slide out this way, like that?
Is that what you're thinking? And then on this side...
- same on the other side. - Our design might be impossible.
"Gold Team's modern design will feature table extensions,"
"drawers to store multiple tabletop games, and unorthodox C-shaped benches."
- Yeah. Got it. - Okay.
"With the design process underway, I decided it was a good time for me"
"to stop by and offer some unsolicited advice."
- We'd have to put it here, so... - Don't. Don't do that.
- I wouldn't do that. - No? You don't think so?
Something I've been wrestling with, how do you make a picnic table interactive?
Well, we've kind of bounced around a lot of ideas.
- We had talked a lot about games. - Games, yes.
- We had a plexiglass igloo for a while. - Yeah.
- A sled. - I had the idea for, uh,
- you know, a lazy Susan situation. - Oh, we have that.
Sean! Similar haircuts, similar ideas.
- These are wings. So, there would be-- - Okay. Oh, it flies.
- No. - That's right.
Oh. I see a triangle design here.
This one did not make the final cut, unfortunately.
- Was this your idea? - I'm a triangle lover. Yeah.
- What's your favorite triangle? - I like them all.
- I like the isosceles. - Okay.
- I like saying it. - Since she's an interior decorator,
we're going to do, like, flowers or something.
It's going to be cute and then...
- Adorbs. - Yeah.
By the way, you have the most adorable design.
- Thank you. - All right, thank-- Ow.
- Alright. See Hugh later. - See Hugh later.
At Imagineering, having a solid story
and an immersive environment is the highest priority.
I want these kids to remember that and incorporate that in their project.
So, first, we're gonna dismantle
all of the parts that have hardware in it.
Even if we don't have the hinges for it today,
we need to at least, like, saw out the wing parts.
I'm thinking that we need to focus on for today
is the interactive part that's going to spin.
This is not a speed process.
We've come up with the idea that we're gonna build the picnic table,
and then we're going to add onto it and modify it.
"Nolan enjoys building all kinds of things."
"He even built a home for his pet Guinea pig, Winston."
These are wire racks on the outside,
it has a plexiglass bottom, and then on the inside
there's wood paneling to keep moisture and stuff from coming out.
- Pretty good. - Yes!
What we need to do is get these little... things out,
so we can make cuts on this wood.
Our design is going to take forever,
so hopefully Brittany can give us some information, run to the mill
and go back and forth and we can be all over the place and then get it done.
"Ellie has used her woodworking skills"
"to help build a chicken coop with her brother."
My three favorite things to do is love animals, skateboard and build.
And she's also a competitive surfer and skater.
These are our lazy Susan pieces.
There's two different sizes.
So, if we offset them and you take your plate,
and you're like, okay, well I'm sitting here. This makes sense.
"Outside of the classroom, Chris is the co-founder of Steam Space For Kids,
which creates engaging hands-on curriculum.
This is a project that I'm very proud of that my students built.
It is a chicken tractor for the Nueva Community Garden.
- Okay. Straight up and down. - It's not going in.
There we go.
You want to always hold on to this bolt.
So, you put it like this.
Okay. So, that's a 45 degree angle. We just need to cut another 45 degree angle
at the right place.
Cool. Perfect.
- Here we go. - All right.
- Really? - Wobble table.
We're just trying to reassemble the picnic table,
and we're fumbling through the whole process of it,
but... We'll figure it out.
At this point, we just need to start with a new piece of wood there.
"As Blue Team tries to un-wobble their table,"
Brittany is going over some geometry with Ellie and Hugh.
We're gonna change this shape of our bench.
So, let's think about something like a stop sign, right?
- Correct. - How many sides does a stop sign have?
- Eight. - It's an octagon, so.
So, how do we figure out what this angle should be?
Don't we have to divide 360 by how many angles?
- How many angles we've got. - How many vertices.
"Brittany has received over 20 awards and grants"
"for her work as an educator and artist."
I love teaching shop class and digital fabrication because it allows students
to take their wildest imaginations and turn them into real tangible items.
"And also teaches 3D design and printing."
- Guess what worked, guys? - How's it going over there?
Guess what worked?
- It did? - Kind of.
It would keep it from wobbling basically.
- Look at this. - It feels pretty solid.
As a team, we were able to find a solution
and fix the problem in a minimal amount of time.
- Good job on that. - We good?
- A little cock-eyed. - I know. It's that board.
- Which board, um... - That one.
Sean and I put the bench together and we find that one of the boards
is warped and there's a lot of movement with the bench.
- Oh my gosh. - Right?
So, Sean, let's think about what we can do to fix our problem.
- I don't know. - I want to pull that board
and re-put it down again.
We took the legs off.
Figured out where the warp was coming from.
We could see the twist in the board.
- The beam's twisted? - Yeah.
We put the legs back on it,
and we just, uh, shimmied them a little bit so they were straight.
And we made sure that everything was staying level.
We figured it out.
"As day one comes to a close, Brooks checks in with the teams."
How are you rethinking what a picnic table is?
We have drawers, and what we're gonna put in the drawers
is a checkers and chess board,
and then we're gonna have a cooler in the middle area over there, too.
I think you're really rethinking what picnicking could be
in terms of the social interaction, which is pretty interesting.
Always go back to the idea, does this tabletop allow for more socializing?
And just keep defaulting to that shape.
We are actually gonna put a back to our bench,
and then we're gonna put cushioning on our bench.
So, that's super difficult to do.
The angles, the ergonomics of all that stuff
seems like too time-consuming for the challenge that you have.
I would skip that. But, this tabletop in your sketch seems cool,
but now the bench isn't going to match
- and I-- that-- that's a problem. - Right.
It's scary for sure to get out of your comfort zone, but it's necessary.
So, I was really pushing them to really rethink what the structure
of the picnic table and the benches could be like.
We've made it so that is now a square that would come up,
and this would be a cooking area.
- Nice. - We're gonna have a spinning wheel
- in the middle, a lazy Susan. - Yeah.
- For the food. And that side edge, - Okay.
we're also going to add hooks for tools.
Yeah, I think you guys really are, like,
nailing like, the essence of like, function.
But you have one opportunity here to blow our minds.
I think you should scratch the lazy Susan,
and take all that brain power and make the table different.
I think you have an amazing expert person who can do metal.
I was really clawing at what is the interactive quality of the table.
It's bringing people together.
There's elements, but I'm not sure it's in-- interactive enough.
Do you think we could make, like, a whole design out of metal?
- Could you do that? - Yeah, I can make something.
How can we take what he said and implement it
but not implement it so much where our ideas are scrapped out?
- Want to start drawing stuff? - We went back to our idea
in the beginning of putting a metal centerpiece
where you can stick magnets on it and leave your mark on the table.
So, we got some good advice.
I think we made a decent amount of progress today
and we've got a lot to do tomorrow.
So, good job today and we'll do it all again tomorrow.
- All right. - We got a lot done today
and I'm ready to get started tomorrow. Are you?
- Me, too. - Yeah? Cool.
So, as soon as we walk in tomorrow, we'll have the paint.
Hopefully we'll have the fabric covers
and we'll have a really great place to start.
And we're gonna move quickly through tomorrow.
And we're going to go with a whimsical design.
We're gonna add lots of games, too.
So we had a lot of game plan changes,
right, in terms of the theme of our table?
Based on Judge Brooks' feedback,
we're going to put a grill in the middle of our table,
and so our table is now going to be like a food preparation table
where you can grill your food with other interactive elements for preparing food.
So, we're trying to make it more about the eating experience.
It's too loose, see that? So, we got to make it the C shape I think.
Sure. I think we were going to make the sides...
straight, so like some straight, just.
- No, no, the tables goes like... - design stuff...
- It's straight on the sides. - Do you think...
Brooks really thinks that it's important to have the legs be different.
We are going to side the legs
so it doesn't look like the leg that is just the three by sixes.
It'll have a little sculptural element to them.
And then we also decided to get rid of the backs of our bench.
We want it to be fun.
Something that might make it exciting to you, what could that be?
We wanted to add something a little bit more interactive,
so we decided to make one of the benches a bean bag game.
We're gonna cut the bench in half and fold it down.
- Ooh! That would be cool. - Right? And then we're gonna...
You could also add some of those to the benches. The paint.
Oh, do you want me to paint the benches blue?
"Kelly has been awarded honors for academics and robotics."
This trophy is a 2018 CUSD award, first place for robotics.
"And is also an aspiring filmmaker."
I'm not very worried about time, because I feel
like we've planned out and spaced everything
so that we get it done in exactly three days if not less.
Had our benches already put together,
which is one of our huge goals for today,
and right now, we just got to connect this, and that'll be second,
and then we're gonna design a roof.
I'm really excited about this new roof idea.
We're going to make a plywood slanted roof held up by two steel posts.
This could bring us to the win
just because it's so big. It's out of the box.
We're making custom legs for the bench and table
instead of just using the provided legs.
"Hugh began competing in robotics competitions in the fourth grade."
I made a pantry out of an old water heater closet.
Now I can have cereal whenever I want.
"And has won an award for every year he's competed."
She just came back from the mill with our bench and it is awesome.
I'm really happy about the legs because they're square, not like this.
- Cute, right? - I think we're doing something
- cooler now, but let's see. - Excellent.
If we move that back.
These legs are on hinges.
So you put that down, and you've got a setup for some cornhole.
"Sean also enjoys coding and building robots,"
"and helped his team win an excellence award"
"at the Vex Robotics Championships."
I'm usually the driver who drives the robot on the team.
It's fun to drive robots and, but it's also fun
to see our robot succeed in what it was meant to do.
But since there are two are these, we can do one each.
I can do one of these and you can do the other.
Um... sure.
I think the biggest wow factor will be the cornhole set
and I think that's really going to help our design shine.
One of the things I look for when evaluating in a project are the details.
Often times the details get overlooked
and often times a minor detail that's out of place
can completely break the idea of the environment that you've tried to create.
Punch up. Oh!
- Who has clean hands? - Uh...
- Which one of you has clean hands? - This is finished.
Don't step on it, it's drying.
- See these lines, right here? - Yeah.
We want to keep it in between these lines.
- Got it? Okay. - Yeah.
"As the end of the second day approaches,"
"judge Lauren checks in with the teams."
Tell me about your design. What's going on here?
Okay, so right now I'm sanding the legs on our corn-hole bench.
So, we have two of these, and they're gonna be put together,
and then when they're not together...
- they go down into corn-hole. - You've got a theme?
- Yes. Whimsical. - Ooh, whimsical.
Well, I really want to see some whimsical, magical stuff,
like, really wow me there. Dress up your table really awesome
so that we can really get the full vision of your design.
The corn-hole bench is super fun.
My biggest fear for the green team
is that they don't take their fantasy theme to the full extent.
If they don't paint some fun swirls and some funky shapes,
then I don't think I'll get the feeling
that this is a fantasy, and it might fall short.
How are you going to make this look amazing?
Well, I'm pretty good at painting. He's pretty good at painting.
I wouldn't go that far.
It looks pretty good so far.
- Yeah? - All right. I'm-- I'm impressed.
I mean, I like the ideas of what you've got going here.
I just want to know how we're going to take it to the next level.
I think I have a couple of modernists on my team,
so we've decided to go with a white and gray paint scheme.
I want to see some razzle dazzle, okay.
- Okay. - I know you're going for
- a minimalist look, but I'm a maximist. - Yeah. Okay.
And we've got the cloud theme going on, very Toy Story.
- Yes. - We've also got that going on with our
roof over there, which is yet to be finished.
- That's going to be the inside. - The roof is gonna attach right here.
With the trashcan, love this. Super cool idea.
I think it's super convenient. Oh, and we've got benches.
The cool thing. You can put them together to make one bench.
That's cool. That's super cool guys.
Blue team has a really unique theme with the nature aspect
of everything and I love that they're gonna put an umbrella top on it.
There's a lot of different components that are going on there,
and they don't have much time to finish these projects,
so I'm a little nervous about them finishing them off.
We're doing pretty good on our game plan.
We got one of our benches reinforced.
It even has a footrest, which was an unplanned addition.
We just need to assemble the other one.
There's always more to do, but yeah, we definitely...
We did what we needed to do.
I feel like
with the way that our team is moving today, we're gonna make it work.
Our picnic table is not just going to be any old picnic table.
It's gonna be an awesome game center.
Nolan, what are you doing?
We'll have to go get them.
Okay guys. So, today's our last day. We have a lot to do.
Um, I'm gonna start, uh, working on reinforcing our bench.
I think we'll easily get everything done today
- with the hel-- - Not easily.
Yeah, ambitious. Not with the list you gave me.
Hmm, easily like, we'll get it done today.
- No, you can handle it. - I can handle it.
Well, there's a lot of faith being put into me right now.
I'm thinking we screw this in before we put that on just to...
- But then how would it go back up? - So, we run into
a little bit of a problem when we're building the wing flap: it's too long.
So, we end up turning it on its side
to make it so that it's shorter so it doesn't hit the ground.
So, here's my thought.
This support will be coming out. And this box will be inset into here.
"While Chris finishes green team's decorative table leg..."
I'm just going to make it, uh, pop a little bit more.
"Ruth and Sean finish up the paint job."
And then if I was to do this, pulling the paint in one direction,
when you see something like that, just take your brush
and just dab at it, and we won't see them anymore.
That looks great.
I'm feeling pretty good on time. The only thing I would say
I'm kind of worried about is the roof
because it's risky, but I think we can do it.
Pouring the paint, it got a little out of hand.
And the paint bucket just flipped over. Got all over the floor.
And now we're trying to clean it up.
But I don't think I have time to clean it up.
- Can I have that top... - Yeah.
or the bottom as it is?
Really nervous we're not going to get this done.
You wanna like, hammer it from the other side, or?
- Oh gosh. No. - So, these are gonna go right here.
Okay.
And then you're going to be able to put a trash bag over it.
- Thank you. - Yes.
- Ready, ready, ready? - Lift with your legs.
So, this is much lighter than I thought. This is good.
It's good. Yeah, it's pretty light with two people.
"With all the teams hustling to finish their designs,"
"Disney Imagineer Todd drops by for a quick check in."
- Hi guys. How are you doing? - Hi. Good, how are you?
Can you tell me a little bit about how you, uh, came up with the inspiration?
When people picnic, they play outdoor games, so we just made a corn-hole.
Is that what the hole is for, for the, uh...
This folds down.
- Oh, wonderful. - There are two benches that, uh,
two sides of it that come together.
It's wonderful that you guys had the opportunity
to be able to do so many things with the bench itself.
It's not just a place to sit down,
but it's a place that can be entertaining at the same time.
You're gonna have a grill in the table?
We are. We're going to have a grill in the middle of the table.
So, people can cook their food right there while they're playing the games.
That's the plan. Then we decided we're going to add
a juicer so you can make juice on the table.
- Cooler. - We've got a cooler,
so you can keep cold drinks on the table that'll be attached.
- And a bottle opener. - And a bottle opener.
So, people just need to show up. It's all going to be there.
- They don't have to bring anything. - Exactly. Exactly.
- That's the plan, right? - That's a great idea.
One of the main interactive parts of this build is...
there's going to be a metal sculpture in the middle
and on that, you're going to be able to place magnets
and you'll be able to put things on it.
Like if you find something on a trail... you'll be able to, you know,
leave your mark and build your own art piece on the table.
- That's a great idea. - And we're gonna have...
I'm amazed on how different they all are.
Every team has taken a simple idea and have kind of run with it
in their own direction, so I'm excited to see exactly
how many of those interactive capabilities
they were able to finish within the short amount of time that they've got.
- The table's here. - Oh my gosh.
Take one of these. We're going to lay it right down on the cross
- and then we're gonna drill it in. - Ok.
Something like this and then this goes on top of it.
I feel really great right now.
Like, just seeing it all come together and just like
the length alone is just astonishing.
Are we just doing three, then? That works.
Hey, one hour guys. You got one hour.
We're just under a lot of stress.
The roof is on. I got the sculpture in there.
"With less than an hour to go until the build test,"
"the teams begin moving their picnic tables to the stage"
- "and putting on final touches." - Yeah, that looks really great.
I definitely think the biggest wow factor of the design is the roof.
I thought it was a little bit risky at first to put that on last minute,
but I think we've really got it under control.
Five minutes to go. Five minutes.
Check the levelness of our table.
We need to get on it and just go, go, go.
All right. If you can fix the lights, that'd be great.
Our table isn't just a picnic table. It's actually an entire game center.
- We're going to do awesome. - Ten seconds...
- nine, eight... - Running out of time.
seven, six, five, four, three.
Two, Ellie! One. Tools down.
- Ah, we did it. We're done. - We did it, we did it, it was awesome.
- Bam, bam, bam. - We got this.
All right. Hey, Sean, high five.
So, over the past three days, you re-imagined
and contemporized the picnic table.
I have to say, I think all your picnic tables look great,
but are they interactive and are they durable?
We're about to find out. Green team. You guys are gonna be up first.
Judges, let's do it.
All right. Ruthie, why don't you
talk us through the interactive elements here?
On the sides here, we have the holders for our bean bags.
And then the bench, they both fold down.
Awesome.
- If it's like... Go ahead, try it out. - Can we toss them in?
'Cause if it is like this, you know, this totally makes...
- Hello, judges. - Ah, Justin.
And then it serves the other purpose of being a bench.
- Nice. Mind if we take a seat? - Go ahead.
- Trust you, okay. - I'm gonna sit in the middle.
- The weak link. - It sits everybody.
Could you show me how this lazy Susan works, Sean?
- You spin it and the other ones spin. - He's been spinning it.
Hey Sean, could you pass me the, uh, the chess pieces?
- The chess pieces. - Because that one is a little...
- There you go. - Ah, perfect.
So, Brooks, do you like what you're seeing in terms of the construction?
Yeah, it looks very durable and steady.
There's like attention to detail. The benches are lining up.
It's not the typical A-frame.
And they added on these extra pieces on the side,
which totally changes the look and feel. They've created something totally new.
There's so many things that are here that I'm entertained by
no matter where I look, there's something to discover.
And the scalloped edges are really fun and you know, whimsical.
I love the idea of the game
that you guys incorporated with the bench.
I kept thinking games on tabletops and the fact that you guys
added them to the bench, it's just different.
- I hadn't even thought about that. - Okay.
- Blue team. We're coming to you. - Okay.
- Let's go check out blue team's design. - Okay. Thank you, guys.
- Thank you, guys. Well done. - Thank you.
So, Nolan, what was the intention of the interactive element of the design?
So, a lot of that came from Giana.
She's a metal worker and she had the great idea to add magnets
- onto a metal art piece in the middle. - That is cool.
Where you could leave your mark on the table.
Judges, you want to test out the magnets?
- I do. - Get your hands on it. Oh, thanks.
People can leave, like, notes and things they've found.
Could you, uh, talk me through the bench design?
- They do connect together. the designs. - Oh, so, they also separate.
- Yes. They separate, see. - Oh, how cool.
Voila.
- So you can sit... - Well done.
J--Judge Brooks, uh, anything from an architectural standpoint
that is really, like, popping out to you?
I mean, so many things.
I love that the fact that you added a shelter to the table.
I think that's a really clever idea. And the shape of these benches.
To be able to modify the geometry of the ends so all the benches
can reconfigure in multiple layouts, so cool. So interesting
Well, when first looking at the stools themselves...
- Yeah. - I was kind of concerned,
but once they were put together
and you had more people on it, it gave it a lot more structure.
- I think it works well. - Well, I really love
how you were able to use scraps of wood
and actually repurposed them in really some creative ways.
And I love the surprise element of the stars underneath.
That's really fun and whimsical almost, you know.
I mean, you just really kept a theme going even with your pyramid.
So, we have one more design left to check out.
Gold team, you guys are up next.
It looks incredible.
There's so many different interactive elements to your table.
So, can you walk me through each of these?
One with a juicer.
Two with the cooler.
Three with solar panel lights, I guess.
- Okay. - Four with the grill.
And five with the chess set.
- Footrest, six. - Footrests.
- Seven with the drawers. - Seven.
Eight with the Bluetooth speaker over there.
And nine with the chalkboard.
- And ten with the bottle opener. - And ten with the bottle opener.
- And how about the leaves, right? - Eleven.
- Don't forget the storage. - Storage.
Twelve. They keep coming up. You don't even know all of them.
So cool you guys. Judge Brooks, what do we think of their table?
Well, I love how long it is,
taking it really out of the iconic picnic table size and shape
and I also love that the bench almost makes a hexagon.
Changing those things alone totally elevated outside
of what would be the typical picnic table-ness thing.
So, I think you did an amazing job.
This color combination is really in style.
It's very classic. Okay.
I like the fact that there's so much space as far as how long the table is.
The grill I like because if you backpack, you know, a lot of times, uh,
you don't have a lot of gear with you.
I sound like a broken record, but you guys all did an awesome job.
- So, thanks for showing us - Thank you.
and for all your hard work.
Okay guys, we've all had a chance to check out
how you've evolved the design and had a chance to make it interactive.
But now we're gonna check out the durability factor
by using something I like to call The Boulder Bash.
- Oh, yes! - Yeah.
So, all these creations that you've worked so hard on
over the last three days, we're going to drop big rocks on them.
Cool?
And guess what, green team, you're going to the boulder bash first.
So, green team, there will be two boulders
that your picnic table faces for this durability test.
I can sense your nervousness and I share in that nervousness.
Here we go. Okay. One, two, three.
- Bring on the boulders! - bring on the boulders!
- Oh, my gosh. - Okay!
We got one boulder down. That's pretty good, right?
Here comes the second boulder and send the boulder.
Bring on the boulders.
No way. I thought everything was gonna fall.
- Oh my gosh. It held up. - Yeah.
- I can't believe it held up. - That was...
- I'm very excited. - I'm very surprised.
That was a lot to take in.
- Any non-fixable damage? - Nope, this is all good.
- It's all good. - No. Yeah.
- You just fixed it. Answered that... - Fixed it.
- And the benches are still functioning. - Still ADA compliant.
Okay. Good job, green team. It held up. Chris, nice.
Blue team. come on down.
Good job, green team.
Kelly. Um... any predictions?
Probably bounce off the roof and hit our little dome right there.
The roof is a great idea. It's protecting your table.
- It's a boulder roof. - Yeah, that's exactly
what it was meant for. I was feeling confident about our build
until I saw the size of those boulders.
Here comes your boulder bash. On the count of three.
One, two, three.
- Bring on the boulders! - Bring on the boulders!
- I heard some cracking. - All right.
It's bruised, not broken.
Any predictions for the second boulder?
- The entire thing just collapses. - Oh, wow. Let's find out.
Bring on that boulder.
Judges, let's take a closer look. Okay?
It looks pretty sturdy.
Oh, yeah. It's a little wiggly. The weak part is the welds up here.
The welds just needed more surface.
Rushing through that time is interesting.
It can change the way you think.
If this were to get compromised out in the wilderness,
- this could hurt somebody. - All right.
Blue team, it-- it withstood it pretty well.
Good job boulders.
Gold team, please join me down here on the floor.
All right. Gold team. You ready for the boulder bash?
- We're ready. - Okay, good energy, Hugh.
Okay, here we go. One, two, three.
- Bring on the boulders! - Bring on the boulders!
- Poor grill. - What a dented grill.
All right, gold team. You're halfway there. You've withstood one boulder.
- Are we ready? One, two, three. - One...
- Bring on the boulder. - Boulder.
- Okay. - You made it!
You made it through, guys.
- I don't think-- Yeah. - And it's fixable, that one.
The judges will be the judges of that.
- All right. - The bench is totally fine.
All right, Lauren, what do we see with the grill? Talk to me.
Ah, yeah, it definitely sustained some damage.
But we, that's fix-- fixable. You can just bend it back.
Okay. Why don't we head back and give gold team the good news?
- Okay. - Okay. Builders,
- this concludes the first annual... - Boulder bash!
That's right.
Okay. Teams, just give us a moment while we discuss.
Judges, let's have a quick huddle up.
Our table is just all around a great dining experience.
- That is a genius idea. - Yeah, I agree.
Like, that alone is unbelievable, revolutionary
And I really hope the judges see that.
- Okay. thank you so much judges. - Okay.
- Uh, let's deliver the news. - Okay.
Okay. As you know, there's only one team moving on to the semifinals.
Our interactive points might not be as much,
but we can make up for that because of our, you know, roof
- and flap on the end. - They all look great.
I think it's gonna be hard for the judges, actually.
I feel like the benches is what's gonna push us to the semifinals.
The corn-hole bench was a pretty unique idea.
But all three of us are neck and neck and I think it's anybody's game.
And the winning team is...
the Green Team.
Oh my gosh, we did it. We did it.
I actually thought they were joking.
- I thought they were joking, too. - Me too.
We're going to semifinals.
"Green team's picnic table has earned Ruth, Christine and Sean"
"a spot in the semifinals."
Gold team and blue 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. How cool is that?
Pretty cool.
I'm very proud of what we built,
but I'm even more proud of the green team.
They did it and I'm even more excited to go home
and start building something with my new building kit.
All right, green team. Congratulations. We'll see you in the semifinals.
- Oh, my... - Well done. Everyone, great job, truly.
- So good. - Yeah!
Hey, you guys are awesome.
- Ay-yi. - Oh my gosh.
Good job, girl!
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