A new generation of talented builders
are carving their own path.
Picking up tools and working with their hands
to design and build unique and inspiring creations.
- Let's start with form. - This is huge.
- Whoa! - Joining these ambitious builders
are a group of talented teachers
who will help them execute amazing creations.
Awesome!
Each week, three teams,
comprised of two young builders and one shop class teacher,
compete for a chance to win the title of Shop Class Champs.
Wow!
Over the course of three full days, the teams
will battle it out in the shop class...
- Are we ready, guys? - ...the build zone...
...and the mill.
- So, which build will win? - We're so close, I can taste it.
- Well, that's up to our judges. - Hi.
Award-winning architect and product designer, Brooks Atwood
who has been featured in magazines and museums all around the world.
I'm so excited to see that thing!
Lauren Makk, a leading interior designer
and home decor expert with a penchant for maximum color and innovative style.
I gotta say, as an interior designer, their paint job was perfect.
And each week, the teams will also need to impress
our guest judge, a Walt Disney Imagineer.
I'm just really excited to see you guys make some magic.
Walt Disney Imagineering is the creative engine
that designs and builds all Disney theme parks
and attractions around the globe.
Founded in 1952 as WED Enterprises,
to build the world's first theme park, Disneyland,
the Imagineers combined creativity with high-tech innovation
to execute unforgettable experiences.
Today, there are thousands of Imagineers making magic worldwide.
One team from each qualifying round will advance to the semi-finals
and the top three will go head-to-head in the championship.
Eighteen teams. Eight epic builds.
- Sound good? - Yeah!
And one team will earn the title of Shop Class Champions.
The winning team is...
So, put on your safety goggles.
- All right! - Grab your hammers,
get building, because class is in session.
I'm Justin Long, and welcome to Shop Class.
- Wow! - Wow!
Whoa!
This place is amazing!
I see a lot of tools, I see blueprints. This place is awesome.
- All right, here we go! - Yeah, this is so cool.
- Nice color, it matches us very well. - It does.
This place is really amazing!
I just can't wait to see what goes on here.
Sorry, I'm in the wrong class.
- My God! - There you are!
All right, thank you.
Hey, everyone. Welcome to Shop Class.
- Yeah! - Let's go!
Three teams have come to compete, but only one will conquer and move on
and be one step closer to earning the title of Shop Class Champs.
And taking home an epic grand prize.
We have the Gold Team.
I'm Alyssa, I'm 13, and I love being artsy and crafty.
Hey, guys. I'm Andrew, I'm 14, and I love building robotics.
I'm Kyle. I teach woodshop at Sutter Middle School
in Sacramento, California.
We have the Blue Team.
I'm Sam, and I'm 13 years old, and I love building things with wood.
Me llamo Homero. I'm 12 years old and I really like design.
I'm Brannon, I'm an instructor and teach woodworking and shop
to nine to 17-year-olds.
And rounding things off, is the Green Team.
I'm Romy, I'm 14, and I love using wood and just being creative.
I'm Nick, I'm 12 years old, and I love woodworking.
I'm Tom, I'm a retired woodworking teacher.
I taught both in high school and community college.
Okay, students. Listen up. These teachers are gonna need your help, okay?
So be the creative young builders that you are, and feel free to teach them
- a thing or two, all right? - Yeah.
Before we put your talents to the test, let's meet the panel of skilled judges
who will decide which build is top of the class.
First up is an award-winning maker and architect,
- Brooks Atwood! - Hello, everybody!
- Wow. - The next judge is an interior designer
and home decor expert, Lauren Makk.
- Hi! - And finally our guest judge,
principle production designer at Walt Disney Imagineering,
- Jameel Haiat. - Hey!
My name is Jameel Haiat, I am a principle production designer
with Walt Disney Imagineering.
When we approach a project, there's three basic phases.
Concept, design, and build. So what I do is, working with a group,
I take that concept, go into design, and make that vision come to fruition.
I'm currently working on Star Wars: Rise of The Resistance
You guys ready to find out what you're building?
- Yeah! I'm up for it. - We're ready.
Okay, teachers, grab your pushcart and bring it back to your workstation.
All right.
On the count of three,
I want you to pull the tarps, okay?
One, two, three.
- Whoa! - Wow!
That's a lot of books!
I see a whole bunch of books and long wooden planks,
and I was so confused.
I'll tell you this, no you're not building a bookshelf.
You're actually building...
- a Little Free Library. - Wow! That's cool!
- Hey! Okay! - Whoa!
What's the Little Free Library?
A Little Free Library is a small structure
where the public shares books with each other.
They're popping up in neighborhoods everywhere.
All across the country, these libraries enhance the communities,
and encourage reading.
So, it's up to you to design and build a better Little Free Library.
So, we have a stack of books, roofing material, some metal bits,
steel, wood and plexiglass.
Your builds will be judged on overall creativity
and design functionality.
And of course, it has to be able to withstand the brutal effects
of nature, and the winning team will move on to the semi-finals
and be one step closer to the championship.
- Sound good? - Yeah!
Library voices, please! Please!
- Sound good? - Yes.
Okay, so let's get building!
- All right. Let's... - Okay.
- So, let's take a look.
Let's do this! All right, let's get over to some paper.
Let's start getting some form down.
As an architect, form follows function.
And how that works is that the building has to perform first
before it can follow the design.
If we want to go ahead and think outside the box.
So, I'm really looking to see how the teams can merge those two things.
Form and function.
It's something that's interesting to both adults and kids.
- Yes. - Yeah.
I've worked on several projects that involve libraries,
and it's always important to create a functional space, but also a mood.
So, that's what I'm looking for today.
To see a really functional library
that also sets the tone for reading and learning.
So, do I... I mean, do we wanna just do, like,
your basic box with a roof peak in the middle, like a birdhouse or...
- Definitely not! Something different. - No?
With the Little Free Libraries that I've seen,
they're usually square boxes with a normal roof.
So, I think our design should incorporate some unique aspects.
As an avid builder, Andrew participates in architecture,
woodworking, and robotics classes.
Here's one of the projects that I'm working on designing right now.
And he was a finalist
in the seventh grade national VEX robotics competition.
Also, this doesn't have to be all plexiglass,
so, like, here's a frame if we draw it.
- Right. - Yeah.
We decided to do a Frank Lloyd Wright style house
and incorporate a post that goes through the center
for aesthetics.
Let's start with form.
Our forms are what? Bipedal people, right?
So, the form of our library won't be a person.
What is your first guess for form?
Design is putting pen to paper. Coming up with a form,
and watching the students, especially in shop class,
coming up with their own designs, their own measurements,
that's why I'm here.
I'm thinking about doing, like, a book as the roof.
I think it's great! I really like it.
Why not build the roof and make it look like an upside-down opened up book?
So, the rain would hit it and fall off
to the sides, and it would also look really cool
and attract the people to come to it.
Sam excelled in his middle school woodworking class so much
that his teachers recruited him.
I've been the TA for my teacher, so I do a lot of helping other kids
with their projects, and it's a lot of fun.
He's even won first place for his regatta boat build
in his local youth group.
The knob is gonna go right here, and then right behind the knob
- the magnet's gonna be right here? - Yeah.
The hardest thing about our design
is figuring out how to make it sturdy enough.
We've decided to build what we're gonna call, Book House,
with windows all around this thing and a large book as a roof.
We're gonna open up some negative space underneath in this rectangular form.
That's our design and we're feeling pretty good about it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Um, we could do
what we were talking about, like a spaceship.
With the fins?
Yeah. So, I throw out the idea of a rocket ship,
and my whole team seems to love it.
We could do double doors
- and have them... - Yeah, I like that.
- Like, maybe here we could do double... - Yeah, it has to be really strong.
And it also has to be weatherproof.
- Yeah. - Right?
It's a tough challenge to try and make it look cool,
at the same time as making it durable and weatherproof.
We can do six sides or that...
So, I'm just saying maybe we want
- to get out of the square. - Yeah.
We decided to build a hexagonal, rocket ship shaped, Little Free Library
with a nose cone and French doors.
- Whoa! Whoa! - Look at all this gear.
All right. Let's go over here, boys.
Sweet! Sweet!
Cool, we have a lot of stuff.
At Imagineering, one of the critical things
that we do is collaborate,
whether it's 40 people or three people,
to get a project done, it's a must.
And the kids in Shop Class, they have to do the same thing.
There's a few of them with their teacher.
They have to go through that collaborative process,
um, just to be successful.
- This is our layout. - Let's cut this part out.
Yeah, cut it out, but outside the line.
This is gonna be our stencil to create the shape that we need.
This hexagonal shape for our rocket ship is really out of the box
and it's something different, but still cool.
Connecting all the dots, so that our stencil can be on the board
and we can cut it out.
Romy comes from a history of builders.
I built this bowl out of a block of wood.
Her dad is a general contractor
and she's been working with tools since she was eight.
I carved it out, I sanded it and then I put oil on it.
The line that we draw should be thinner than an eighth of an inch.
I think our biggest challenge here is design.
Finding a way for Homero and Sam to showcase their abilities.
Yeah, all right. So, I think what you're saying is...
- Okay. - So, this is the top view.
We're just cutting little strips out like this?
Correct, just revealing those little squares.
Homero has used handheld tools to create a number of items,
including wooden utensils, bowls and even a train.
It's pretty fun, I just love making stuff out of wood.
What do you find that is artsy in a simple way?
We do have a design, something strong,
but I just wanna add some little spark to make it extra.
Maybe I could add the words "Little Free Library" in a certain font.
I spelled "little" wrong.
Okay.
At school, Alyssa is a member of the Builders Group,
which improves local communities.
One of my favorite things that I made lately
was I made a fairy magic pencil holder on top of a Lazy Susan.
And all of Alyssa's creations have a theme tied to her own self-expression.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
This is the window, and then this is the door.
- These are the two door panels. - Okay.
Give me another layer on that one,
and do the same on this one.
The Green Team has already started assembling one of the French doors
- on their rocket ship. - Hi, Green Team.
- Hi. - Hey, how are you?
Hi. Tell me about your design and what you guys got going on here.
This was our model we made. It's supposed to look like a rocket ship.
- A rocket ship! That is so cool. - And then we got some fins on the side.
The Green Team's design features a rocket ship fuselage
to house the books.
And a set of French doors to access them.
- That was completely different. - Yeah.
- This is definitely different than... - It's like a sculpture almost.
- Yeah, it catches your eye. - Hey, I like that!
Yeah! All right, get to work, you guys. You're doing great.
- Thank you. - Bye, guys.
- So, I think she likes it. - Well, we're... we're kind of bizarre,
- which I think is kinda cool. - Yeah, unique.
Tom taught high school shop class for more than two decades.
This was the first project
I had my woodworking students do, it was a box.
And is a two-time Teacher of Year award recipient.
Is it a two-story house?
- So, there are two stories up here. - Okay.
But this is just gonna be just so it can stand up.
And this part up here is actually a book.
Yeah, we're gonna make it look like a book. So...
- You left it for last, didn't you? - Clever!
- This is Book House. - I like that!
Blue Team's Book House design incorporates two stories of shelving
to house the books,
and a red book-shaped roof to protect them from the elements.
I love this concept.
One thing I think I might do to elevate the design,
and to make it little bit more communal friendly.
Give it something where the base can actually be utilized in the design.
- Got it. - And functional.
Lauren suggests that the Blue Team utilize the open space
at the bottom of the library.
Guys, what do you think about a garden down here?
Or we take the idea and we build upon it.
So, we have this really long window on both sides.
So, it'll basically see
- through all the way. - See through the whole thing.
And one of them is a door.
- Yeah, so... - And the other one is sealed.
Gold Team decides to go with a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired
mid-century modern design.
The plan includes an angled roof, windows on both sides,
and a succulent garden.
I think you got some good, solid ideas going.
If it has two clear sides, you want to make it attractive
on both sides. I gotta see something interesting.
So, now we decided that we wanna do a little home for the bees.
Gold Team plans on creating a hive to attract bees to nest,
which ties into their eco-friendly design.
Okay, so, let's write "Little Free Library" on here.
- Okay. - Draw it out,
cut one out as an experiment. This is kind of our trial.
- See how we'd make this work. - Yeah.
And then, we could glue letters onto one of our wooden panels.
Nick has been woodworking since he was ten,
and won fastest Pinewood car in his local youth group.
I love working with my dad and my grandpa.
We build so much stuff.
He credits his dad and grandpa, who are also experienced builders.
Now, I may not be an expert builder, or even an amateur builder,
but I'm still gonna check in on the teams just to see how they're coming along.
- Hey, Tom! - Hey, how are you?
- Hey, Nick. - Hey.
- Hey, Romy. - Hi.
I just want you guys to know that, this shirt was not my choice.
And it's... it's not saying anything
- about where my loyalties lie... - Wow.
- ...despite wearing a... - Yeah, what is that?
- The blue shirt, all right. - Yeah.
- See you, Tom. - Take it easy.
Okay! Okay!
Whose gloves are these?
Justin's sense of humor is... is hilarious.
- I see. It's like a puzzle piece? - Yeah.
But, um, I don't know if he's ever built anything in his life.
- So you've used a saw like that before? - Yeah.
I don't really wanna laugh at Justin's jokes,
'cause I don't want him to think that he's funny.
And what are you gonna do with this piece?
On a scale of one to ten, how... how much am I bothering you right now?
- Two. - Two?!
I know I said a really low number, but I meant ten.
All right, well, keep up the good work.
What'd you say? Did you need my help with something?
- No. - Okay.
I wish we had already created the base for that.
So this...
He is doing his best to get Sam to just not pay attention.
Two feet. You were right.
But Sam, just like our Little Free Library...
So, here. Come over here and look.
One inch.
...stood the test.
Here we go! Here we go! All right, cool.
All right, so a few pieces are still in the middle that need to be cut.
We gotta mark this whole thing out and look at the scale of it,
which means every single line on this piece
is going to be a real measurement now.
I'll hold it, you screw those in.
Good deal? Do that next one.
So, the door is done, this is the window on the back side.
While I go in and work on the base,
you guys can maybe start staining these pieces.
- Okay. - We're getting the frame together,
and I think that's the most important part.
A lot of the angles that we've put into our design are gonna be tricky.
But from what we've done so far, it's seems like we're gonna do well.
This part looks good.
It's day two, while Gold Team starts working
on staining the pieces of their library...
I feel confident about how our team is the first one
to start actually assembling the library.
And Green Team are already assembling theirs...
Let's go up 12 and a half inches and make another mark.
Blue Team starts tracing out their design, again.
All right, we need a left wall somewhere...
We don't wanna go too far to the edge.
We don't really wanna waste too much material to draw this thing out.
Brannon teaches wood shop for the local school district at Maker XD,
in Sacramento, California.
He's also an award-winning youth hackathon instructor,
that leads students to innovate and create product prototypes.
- You wanna make a mark? - So right now, what are we doing?
This is gonna give us a complete scale of this whole fabrication
and we'll be able to correct those errors right away.
I put another two inches there, and I burned it.
Meaning, the two now becomes the zero.
- Yeah! I remember. - So, take 17...
- Beautiful. Beautiful. - So, it's 15 and a half.
Watch this.
Yeah, push this all the way flush,
so you know you're getting a straight line. Perfect. Okay.
My gosh! Look at that. All right, so, we'll trace the inside edge
and then we'll add an eighth of an inch.
The coolest part about our design is the windows.
There's gonna be more light coming through and you're gonna be able to see
all the books inside this, because the window is the front
of this Little Free Library.
Kyle's been a woodshop teacher at Sutter Middle School for 18 years.
Some of the tools we use in the woodshop are the table saw.
He's also an advocate for teaching young builders
computer-aided drafting technology.
So, I'm gonna go cut the plexiglass, so wish me luck.
- All right. - Okay.
We said it was gonna be half an inch. That's what we agreed on.
Okay, let's go up to 12 and three quarters.
I see our competitors starting to build now.
We're doing a lot of measuring, but not a lot of cutting.
Like, kinda in the middle. We are falling behind a little bit,
but we're also doing better at designing it.
Judge Lauren, she opened up our eyes, and the bottom of our Little Free Library
is now going to do something it was never going to do.
We think that it would be awesome
for people to be able to sit down and maybe read a book.
To go along with their Book House design,
the Blue Team decides to add a seating component to their build.
By plotting everything out ahead of time, down to the last detail,
we're gonna ensure that we have confidence going into the cuts.
- Before we can start... - Yeah.
...we've gotta go ahead and fill
- all of these holes, right? - Yes.
- We got it. - Okay
Gold Team's design features a hexagonal tiled floor
that isn't coming together
and has them second guessing that floor element.
- What do you think? - I'm starting to question
if we should use Masonite, or even do it at all.
Cutting Masonite with saws is not easy,
because a lot of the time the lines aren't straight.
If you wanted to, you could do something easy,
like just strips of wood or something like that,
just to say that we decorated the interior.
We need a sheet of material, we need to cut letters out of that sheet
of material and you guys are gonna engineer and design
the size of those letters to fit on our Little Free Library.
Yep! Watch out.
I'm gonna start building the parts that we discussed...
- Okay. - ...that you guys designed, okay?
Okay.
You guys wanna see how the window fits together?
- Yes, please! - Yeah.!
My favorite thing about teaching shop class,
is going from the design stage
to actually completing a task and you see it in 3D.
I taught the kids what a dado is.
A dado is a groove in the wood where you can put in another piece of wood
or in our case, we put in a piece of acrylic.
This isn't like glue,
but it's gonna help that glass not, like, move around in the joint.
We have to caulk the dado for the glass.
Yeah, there you go.
Glue both of these, and then put it together...
Cool, cool, cool.
...and screw it together.
How's it look?
- Looks good. - Cool.
I did 15 of those.
It's nearing the end of day two,
and the teams are moving ahead into full build mode.
Well, most of the teams.
Okay, show me what you guys got.
Okay, so we came up with the idea
to have like, an open book as the roof of it.
It's made of wood, it's not gonna be an actual book.
I'm seeing cool sketches, and a giant piece of wood here,
but I don't see any frames or any cut glass or anything like that.
The Blue Team doesn't have anything finished,
just some sketches on paper.
There isn't anything to critique or look at.
I need to see something.
I really wanna see, more progress, so good luck,
- see you guys later. - Thank you.
Thank you. So, he's concerned with how much progress we've made.
Do you want to get rid of the side windows?
- I think the side windows... - Yes!
- You guys wanna get rid of them? - Yes. Side and the back.
- Side and the back. - The side and the back, they're gone.
The design was inspired by mid-century modern architecture,
with all the angles that we chose...
...and we really, like the way it's turning out so far.
Like, what's the interior finish of the house?
We're, um, planning to paint the interior plain white
and then on the bottom,
we were trying to come up with a honeycomb design.
The-- the best material we found was like this Masonite.
- Yeah, sure. This is not good stuff. - The problem is that...
Yeah, it... Exactly.
It's very difficult, especially if you're trying
to make them all the same.
But if you're just gonna do some paints, painting, maybe you could do something
out of a tape or some other kind of a template.
- That's a good idea, yeah. - Yeah.
Mid-century modern architecture is very minimal,
but that's also incredibly difficult to pull off,
because it's all about the little tiny details.
If you don't commit to it, and do it a hundred percent,
then it's gonna look really bad.
- So, here's your door window... - Yeah.
...which I think is a brilliant idea.
- Both sides open? - Yes.
- Both sides will open. - French doors, if you wanna go there.
French doors!
French doors and rocket ships generally don't go together.
If you want non sequitur, we've got it.
I'm really curious to see how this transitions from wooden box
- with door windows into rocket ship. - Yeah.
And... and how the books are displayed,
or what draws me in, right. The wow factor.
Brooks was super concerned about this rocket ship
looking like a rocket ship.
- We still gotta build the cone. - Yeah.
And that's not your ordinary roof, and then we gotta paint it
so it doesn't look like a house with window doors.
- Yeah. - Yes.
We need to trim these down at the end, right?
- I got this. - I got it.
When Brannon first came in with some pieces of wood, it was like,
"Hallelujah! I have something to use."
- Yes! - Yes!
All right, um, you're just flushing things together.
- Eleven and three quarter. - Are we good?
I'm gonna measure again, dude.
And what about just painting it?
And then putting the hexagons on top.
And tracing them out with black ink.
- Yeah, that's what I was thinking. - And that'll look like grout lines.
It looks a little small.
We tried one shape and size for our roof.
- A little too short. - It needs to be longer.
- Okay, so, you want pointier? - 'Cause right here,
it could just look like a weird house.
Nick and I decided that we're gonna go bigger.
- That's 24. - That's a rocket.
- Yeah! - That's rocket time?
- You like that as a nose cone? All right. - That's... that's rocket time.
We got this.
Boys, it's come time to say goodbye for the day.
We're gonna have to get some sleep. We made good progress, okay?
Get some good rest, get ready to come in and build.
All right, see you guys.
- We're back! - Good morning!
- What, we ready to start today? - Ready to go.
Let's hit the ground running, you ready?
- Yep. - Okay.
With only a day left to go, Blue Team's finally assembling
their library with the hope that all the design work finally pays off.
And Green Team's taking Brooks' advice
and making their build look more like a rocket.
We're gonna put sheet metal over the cone.
It's much different working with sheet metal than wood.
Um, the sheet metal is a lot thinner, but still could get damaged easily,
so we need to be careful with that.
: I think I saw this in a textbook from 1945.
Push down, little more.
Little more, right there.
- This is the last one, ready? - Yeah.
Little bit more, okay, good.
- Good. - Nice!
Gold Team also took Brooks' advice and are focusing on the interior.
But with their library still in pieces, they have to work fast
and divide up the tasks.
Mr. Brooks thought it was a good idea to work on the interior of the design.
So, I thought it would be cool if we used little tiny paintings.
One of the things at Imagineering that's very important to any attraction,
any ride system we put out, is the storytelling behind that.
So, just as important would be the kids' approach
to that as well, what's the story behind what it is their building?
What's the guest experience gonna be from beginning to end?
Is that cool?
- That's awesome. - That's awesome.
My God!
Get it outta here. Yeah, cool. Get it out.
- Take it. - I hope there's enough time for this.
Our plan is finally coming together.
Whoo!
Yes!
That's good.
That's why we spent that much time in design.
- I could sit on it and it won't break. - To make the buff stuff.
- Me wants to paint. - Okay.
So, we just put the sheet metal over our rocket, and it looks awesome.
There's no way that Brooks can mistake this for anything but a rocket.
- NICK; The "L" is leaning this way kinda. - So, then it should lean...
Um... so, the stencils are just... They're just too big.
So, hopefully this works, or else I don't know what to do.
Yay!
Does it look good? I think it does. Okay, cool! I like it, a lot.
And I think it's gonna look a lot better with paint, so I'm excited.
- Where do you want it? - Put it... Put it right here, it's fine.
I'm feeling pretty confident about the painting,
but time is not on our side.
It's going okay, I can't give the...
Some of the details that I would prefer.
Time's ticking
and we still have the roof, the floor, the trim.
We have to water seal it.
I have so much to do, it's mind-boggling.
We have got to get busy, you guys.
Okay, do you wanna set it up?
This is gonna take longer than it did to paint the entire thing.
We only have a few more hours to build, so I'm feeling really nervous.
- What's up with this here? - We weren't... We... I didn't...
It all gets painted white then.
- Yep! - Are we painting the inside all white?
- Inside all white? - All white.
- All right. That's good with me. - Cool.
I'll get the top, you get the bottom shelf.
All right.
Let's put the slats in, then put those in.
- Yes! - It's perfect.
My God!
- It's perfect. - Awesome!
We gotta make this roof look like a book,
because, otherwise, it's gonna look like a normal Little Free Library.
How's it going, Alyssa?
It's very hard to paint with these supplies.
Dude, those are looking rad!
That's amazing!
They're gonna look great inside the... Inside the mini library.
- All right. - Let's go ahead and get the trim,
we gotta get the doors on, we gotta get the finish,
- we gotta mount the roof. - All right. Let's go.
So, there's my angle.
Let me help you.
There we go, cool.
You glued this in again?
- Yeah, it's glued. - Right on, cool.
Hey, Homero, guess what... guess what?
You got one hour.
- My gosh! - One hour.
Okay, we've got an hour.
- Okay. - It can't be that different.
Straight over there, here we go, come on.
Time is running out, and I'm always concerned about making sure
we can get in those final details.
All right, perfect.
The garden box is coming together, it's really difficult to get these nails,
'cause it moves on you.
All right. Hey, guys ten minutes, ten minutes.
- Okay. - All right, all right tools down.
Okay, okay, okay, just get this last piece in.
Yellow paint! Yellow paint!
Come on, go. My God. Fan, fan.
- All right. - Two-minute warning!
- Two minutes left. - Two minutes.
- You got it, you got it, you got it. - Ten,
- nine, eight... - God! No, no, no.
- ...seven, six... - Where's the hammer? Where's the hammer?
- There it is. - ...five, four...
- Is it good? Is it good? - ...three, two, one.
Go! Done. Hammers down.
Okay.
- Good job. - Good work, you guys.
- Whoo! - All right, all right.
- Huddle, huddle. - Great high fives.
Welcome, builders.
Yeah!
So, teams, over the past three days you've designed and built
your own Little Free Libraries.
I have to say, I think all your libraries look great, right?
But are they durable? We're about to find out with the help
from my biggest fan.
Ladies and gentlemen, my biggest fan, right here.
- Wow. - Wow.
- No! - Thanks.
I thought it was gonna be a hand blower, and I see this fan that's taller than me.
Your libraries will face up to 100 mile per hour wind,
hail, and rain.
So, builders, it's time for the Shop Class Stress Test.
Nick, are you stressed?
- Yeah. - Yeah, me too.
All right, Gold Team, you're up first.
Kyle, talk me through your design.
Alyssa and Andrew came up with the mid-century modern design
with the open windows and the... the unique shape.
We went with kind of a sustainable feature,
which is the slanted roof, feeds the succulents.
Then they also have some honeycombs below,
so that it'll allow bees to pollinate the local neighborhoods.
- Wow - KYLE: And then Alyssa did
some really cool natural style paintings inside.
So, you wanted to attract both, people interested in reading and bees?
Yes, it's... it's a great combination.
I've never heard of that combination, but it's really cool-looking for sure.
- Whoa! - And it's working already.
Yeah, well that's...
He's one of our testers.
Okay, it's time to start the test now. So everybody,
put on your safety goggles. You don't need to.
- And let's head behind the safety glass. - All right.
I'm not too confident that our build's gonna hold up to the wind.
We focused a lot on aesthetics.
But it doesn't seem like it's gonna be that durable.
- Turn on the fan! - Yeah.
- Turn it on. - Yeah.
All right, everyone, it's time for their Shop Class Stress Test.
- Are we ready? - Yes!
- I don't know. - Let's bring the wind!
No.
Let's bring the rain.
Jeez.
- It's doing it. - Water?
I can't tell if the water's inside.
- I don't think it is. - Yeah, I don't think it is either.
- All right! Whoo! - All right!
All hail the hail machine.
- Yeah! - Amazing!
- Awesome! - Wow!
Great job, Gold. It passed the rain, the wind, and now the hail.
Judges, let's go up, take a closer up and assess the damage.
It looks dry.
It's completely dry, guys. Look.
The paintings are still intact. The books look good.
Judges, let's go back and share your assessment with the Gold Team.
We took a look with the judges.
- The books are totally dry inside. - Yeah.
So, well done, you guys. So good..
- Good job, guys. - Nice one, good work.
Um, okay, let's move on to the Green Team.
So, Tom, talk us through your Little Free Library
from design to the final build.
We were told by the judges to make sure it looked like a rocket.
- And I think we did pretty good. - Definitely looks like a rocket.
Romy, what did you guys do to make it withstand
what it's about to be tested up against?
Well, we made this metal base that we bolted onto the rocket.
- Wow. - And then we put silicone
in, like, the crevices just so rain couldn't get in.
It looks great. Let's see if it can withstand the elements.
Let's bring the wind.
Hey!
No!
It's time to make it rain.
Hopefully, the silicone is holding up.
- Let's bring the hail. - Here we go.
Fortunately, there are no more tests.
So judges, why don't we go take a closer look,
and, we'll check out what's going on inside.
- I feel so bad. - Just that one piece broke off.
- I mean, seriously. - It's perfect.
- Yeah, there's no water at all inside. - No water.
Guys, dry.
Wow!
This took so much time that I can imagine that this...
That's pro.
- Yeah, that is pro. - It looks good.
Enough fun and games,
- let's head back over. - Okay.
So, obviously, it did not hold up to the wind as well
- as you probably would've hoped. - Yeah.
- But, inside it's totally dry. - Yep.
- That's great news. - So...
- Really great. - That's great news.
You guys did a great job. Thanks, Romy.
Thank you guys, very much. Thanks a lot.
- Blue Team, you guys are up. - Good job, guys.
See, this is the best.
- Good luck. - Good job, Romy.
Okay, Brannon, talk us though this library from design to the final result.
This is Book House.
We decided to go with a book for the roof.
And then we wanted people to sit and read a book, so we added a stool.
It looks great. How do you feel your chances
are of it standing up to these elements?
- The durability... - This is buff.
- Yeah. - Okay, time to bring the wind.
- Let's do this, Justin. - Let's wind it up.
My gosh.
You're fine, baby. It's okay.
- Just a little water. - It looks good.
And the roof is working. The water's shedding right off.
- Now, what do we got? - We're done!
- Hail. - Hail, yes.
This is my favorite part.
Yes!
- Whoo! Let's go! - We did it. We did it.
- Yes. All right! - Yes. Yes.
- Nice! - That was incredible, you guys.
Judges, should we go check it out and look inside?
Yeah, I want to see it.
- So, it looks dry. - Is it dry?
- It's dry!
- Brooks, don't play with our heart! - No!
It's dry, dry book.
- My gosh! - Yes!
- It's a dry book. Okay, guys,
let's take, let's head over back to the Blue Team and let 'em know
what's going on.
Well, congratulations, you guys. It stood up to the wind, the rain,
- the hail and, Brooks' scrutiny. So... - Yep!
- Brooks! - Great job, you guys.
- Thank you. - Yeah!
All right, great work.
- We did it! - Good job, baby. Way to go!
- We did it! - Okay, guys.
your Little Free Libraries have withstood
the toughest conditions that nature has to offer.
Great job! You should be really proud of yourselves. Let's head inside.
- Yes! - Okay, let's go!
All right, builders, it's now time to hear from our judges.
Brooks Atwood, what did you think of the Gold Team's design?
Well, as an architect, I appreciate that you went with this theme
of mid-century modern architecture.
What I love about what you guys put together is when I posed,
"What is a window?" You kind of re-thought that whole thing
and came up with this idea that the whole facade is a window.
Kind of like a glass house which is very architectural,
mid-century modern in a cool way.
The asymmetry is great! The roof is amazing.
You've angled it in a way that creates mystery and a wow factor.
One note I would like for you to consider is maybe bees
and Little Free Library might not be the best combination.
I'm going up, I'm opening the door
and bees are just flying all around me and stuff.
I mean, even the bees are part of a wow factor.
It's just a different kind of wow. It's like, "Wow!" You know?
Lauren, what are your thoughts?
Well, Gold Team, I think you guys did an incredible job.
Your finishes are perfect.
The stain is done evenly and it's absolutely beautiful.
I mean, really, this is something
that I would put in front of my home today.
My favorite part is, of course, as an interior designer, the inside.
I love your bee honeycomb tile floor. I love the art that you put on the wall,
so it actually has a feel of it being a home.
It's nicer than my apartment.
- Um, do you have any notes? - My guess my one note would be,
it's important to make sure that you don't have a stinging element
that hangs out around, the kids or a family.
Jameel, you're an Imagineer.
What are your thoughts on Gold's Little Free Library?
At Imagineering, it's something that I have to look at in my daily work
is how you take that big picture concept and you finish it off.
And also how durable it is.
And... and it really meets a lot of that criteria.
Okay, now we're moving on to Blue Team and their Little Free Library.
- Lauren, why don't you start us off? - You guys did such a great job.
I like the idea of having a book on top and actually having the signage so big
that I could see it from across or down the street.
And I loved the color combination.
I think you guys did a really good job of making it eye-catching,
and interesting and engaging.
I think my favorite part of it was having a stool next to it.
Um, I think that was a really cool idea because who wants to sit down
and read a book? Everybody, right?
One small note, if you're gonna go the extra mile and add an extra element,
I would really love to see it finished.
I wish we had a chance to see you paint that stool next to it.
- Jameel. - I like the idea
that you went with this book concept as the roof.
At Imagineering, we're always looking for something very durable, stout,
withstand everything, and still aesthetically pleasing
and invites guests. So, it captures all of those.
As a note, maybe the glass on the sides.
- 'Cause I like to see from all angles. - Okay.
- Brooks. - I think Team Blue did an amazing job.
It's very eye-catching.
When you're walking down the street, you're gonna see it.
The red base with the red roof.
- It all ties in very well together. - Yes.
I also love that it's different heights.
So you have a lower height for kids' books. It's really sturdy.
In particular, the base with the cross legs, it's gonna be sturdy
no matter which way the wind is coming from...
- Yeah. - ...and you know, like, wind comes
from different places.
So, a note that I would say is, it does look
like other Little Free Libraries.
So you're not pushing the aesthetic of what is a Little Free Library.
But otherwise, I think it's really a great job.
We'll just move on to the Green Team. What do you think?
One thing I really like about it is that it's sculptural
with the rocket shape. Obviously for Imagineering theme parks,
this is what we do. You put some thought in that to invite the guests.
So, if this in a park, the guests would be, like,
interested to see this shape and come to it, you know?
Even though it failed the... the wind test,
- it still stood back up. - No!
Look at it. It looks like you just built it right now.
So, kudos to that.
The idea that you would make a rocket
into a Little Free Library, is a great idea.
It totally removes
all of the preconceptions of what you might think
is a library and turns it into something amazing,
spectacular even, but it also looks authentic,
like you made it and it came from you. And I love that idea.
But honestly, I feel like if you just took the base that you have now,
and if you just angled all the legs on a 15-degree angle,
it would have totally stood up to the wind.
You guys, I was blown out of this world by your design.
It looked super cool. I know that's something
that if I saw it in my neighborhood, I would run to immediately.
I know the kids would come to it. It's very engaging.
I can imagine how hard it was to get that metal to bend.
You did an impeccable job. I noticed the detail of how you folded
the edges under, so that no one cut their fingers.
And I love that you took the additional time to not just paint
the red on top, but actually create another piece.
Out of this world, great job!
As you know, there's only gonna be one winning team.
And the winning team is gonna move on to the semi-finals.
We have the most durable thing
that ever existed on this planet, and we totally are proud of that.
Hope the judges understand
that all the details that we've put into our design
are not meant to be very flashy and whimsical,
and are created to both enhance the community and teach sustainability.
I feel like it's just all so different. You know, ours is a rocket ship.
And then, we have Gold Team doing some cool modern design.
And the winning team is...
- The Gold Team. - What? Yeah!
Nice!
Good job, you guys!
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Gold Team's design passed the test with some serious style,
earning Kyle, Alyssa, and Andrew a spot in the semi-finals.
Blue Team, Green Team, I'm sorry you're not moving forward,
but you are going home with something awesome
for all your future builds...
a fully stocked, rolling tool kit.
- Yeah! Nice end. - That's... At least we got something!
My dad will be happy, so he'll be like, "Great,
stop using my tools, use your tools."
Gold Team, congratulations. We'll see you in the semi-finals.
Great job! Great job, everyone!
- Yeah! - So good.
- Going to the semi-finals. Whoo! - Nice!
I loved doing this task,
but I know the semi-finals is gonna be way more tough.
Hey! Good job!
Such a good job. I'm gonna miss you, too.