Previously on Shop Class...
You're building your own mini golf hole.
- All right! - My God!
Professional golf champion, Michelle Wie!
Ooh!
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!
A professional skate boarder will put their builds to the test.
Jonas Wray.
With four spots up for grabs, which of these teams will secure
a spot in the next round?
- Whoa! - My God!
Hey, guys! Welcome to Shop Class!
Hey, everyone!
Wow!
All right. We got three teams ready to start building...
- we got the Gold Team. - Hi, I'm Jenna. I'm 13,
- and I love wood working. - 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've 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 trace 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 is Lance. I am a wood shop teacher in Placerville, California.
Before we 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.
Hi, guys.
Ladies and gentlemen, first up, the interior designer
- and home decor expert, Miss 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
for Walt Disney Imagineering, Audrey Aronoff.
Hey, everybody.
I am Audrey Aronoff. I am a senior architect
at Walt Disney Imagineering.
I worked on the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run attraction.
- Woo! - All right.
You guys ready to find out what you're building?
- Yes! - Yes!
Okay. Teachers, grab a pushcart and bring it back to your workstation.
Tami, that's not the race part.
You're excited.
You're gonna have to move out of my way 'cause I got this.
Enthusiastic.
Okay, teachers, hands on your tarps.
One, two, three!
- Woo! - Woo!
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 pushcart 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 were
as excited about the metal as I was.
You're building your very own...
skate park obstacle.
Yeah!
- Yes! Yes! Yes! - Right?
I think the Gold Team has an advantage here
because I've 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.
- Guess we'll to decide... - Yeah.
I mean, I don't think it's the locker...
- Yeah. - We're gonna take the locker.
- The locker. Yes. - The locker?
- Yes. - It's unanimous.
Lockers are going with Blue.
The locker seems a little bit more challenging because it's unexpected.
Slide, 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 we should go with the slide. - Yeah, go with...
- We'll take the slide. - The slide.
Okay. Green Team is getting the slide.
I am super excited that we get the slide because it's a whole another obstacle.
It's like a whole another thing that they can do.
So, now, Gold Team, of the item's left, which one did you have your heart set on?
- We'll take the desk. - You sure?
- Yes. - Yes.
The competition, maybe, thinks that they got something better,
but honestly, I think we're gonna be way better off with the desk
- than with the other ones. - Teams, you ready?
- Yes! - Yes!
- Let's get building then! - Yeah!
- Man. 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 on 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 for people
who really get immersed in an experience and feel true joy.
One of the coolest phrases I 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 'cause the amount of excitement
"they've just felt, meant they cannot wait to feel it again."
All right, so this is a ramp...
...that they go.
And this is gonna say, "Keep calm and skate on."
That's a great idea. "Keep calm and skate on."
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 am most proud of, is when I built this engine with my mom.
...and has also amassed over 100 awards in dance competitions.
- Yeah. 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 will 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.
'Cause, like, that's fun.
All right. So, now, we can extend past this.
And we can also have it wider.
Yeah.
- Yeah. - Yes. So, make the locker bigger.
Claire also works on robotics...
I like building robots using metal, aluminum, steel.
Stuff like that keeps it really steady.
...and is 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... - Forty-eight. 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 shell,
then they'll have a grind rail extend at one end.
And add a flat ramp up one of the sides.
- One, two, three. - High five at 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...
- Nice. - ...and make, um, like, a drop from it.
- Okay. - A drop from it, like, there.
- Yeah, like a quarter pipe there? - Yeah.
Jenna has used her wood working 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 in the back side
...and if you jump up to this,
you can stall or something on the rail and then go back down.
That's a great idea.
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.
- That way, you can, like... - Dude. I love it.
- We got this. - I love it. We got this.
- All right, let's get building. - All right, let's get building.
Cool. Grab that screwdriver.
- This one? - Yeah.
- Give me one too, please. - Then work your way around.
Are you gonna blend it in or just drizzle on top of it?
Just on top.
- Hi, Blue Team! How are you guys doing? - Hi!
Judge Lauren is stopping by to see how the teams are including
the school objects in their designs.
- Lots of plans. I love this! - Yeah. We've, like, we've got blueprints.
- Yeah. - We've 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 inspirational object.
I wanna see how these teams are able to incorporate their school items
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're also gave them 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. - At the same time.
What I really love about this is that there's so many multiple places
- for the skaters to skate. - Yeah.
So, it's super ambitious. I know you guys can do it
- if you really get to working hard. So... - Yeah.
...I am gonna let you go and finish off.
- All right. - Yeah. Thank you.
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, like, 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 there's gonna be a straight ramp on this side.
- Exactly. - Okay. I am gonna tell you right now.
Just because you're not doing anything too crazy with the desk,
make it awesome.
- You know, like, make it stand out. - We might make the cabinets,
um, we're gonna pull them out at different lengths
and make them stairs that you can walk up to the ramp.
That's actually really cool 'cause then it gives a little bit of
- something extra, you know what I mean? - 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?
Okay. It's looking like a little ouchy happened.
- Yeah. 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.
- Okay. - What I don't want it to look like
is to look sloppy.
- Do you understand what I am telling you? - Yeah.
All right, guys. Good luck.
- Awesome. - All right, guys.
It's like the perfect size and everything.
- Aw. 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 like another one over there that's, like...
- Yeah. - ...raspberry.
- 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. - Awesome!
- Yes! - Grab another one,
- let's do another. - 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 slops everywhere.
- So, we're painting it black now and... - We're restarting.
...then the other colors will pop and we'll 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 ramp. - Yeah.
- You just painted your whole hand. - My goodness. My goodness.
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 paint brush is still kinda 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 wall to building amazing cabinetry.
...and educates students, parents, and teachers
about careers in skilled trades industry.
Very nicely done.
I've been working on the checkerboard and we're going to use it as a ramp
for the skate on the side.
We were originally gonna make it look like skater shoes, you know,
like, an actual, like, chessboard-like checkerboard.
I'll start painting.
All right. Make sure we got all our marks in,
- so, we know where to paint. - Yeah. I'll start.
- Yeah. - All 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 kinda 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.
Nice. Cool.
- Great. Dude, awesome job. Well done. - Thanks.
I should have 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 fund raiser. It's a festival chair.
...and is also a three time industrial and technology education
competition winner.
This doesn't wanna come out.
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 take 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 looks like an illusion, it kind of looks... 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 out the tape.
It's part of 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
'cause 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.
- 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? - Ooh!
- I think it looks great. - And that could be neat.
Yeah, I spelt 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 - Hi. How are you guys doing?
- Great. - For Judge Brooks,
these builds must be skate-able if they're to fulfill their function.
I just finished the Children's Museum in Los Angeles
and it really is combing art and architecture and engineering.
So, what I'm looking forward to seeing the teams coming up with
in their skate park is how to combine something
that's a wow factor, but also something that's functional.
So, we're using the lockers, like, for there
- as a safety precaution. - Up there?
- Yeah. - This locker will actually stand up,
and it'll be like a little safety rail. Plus, it doubles as 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.
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.
Um, so, just a couple of things to tighten up.
I think the obstacle looks really cool.
I'm really impressed with the painting. And I actually love old furniture.
But I also love to modify it in cool ways. I actually really 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?
- Yes. - 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.
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.
Um, 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 going to be able
to hide those two-by-fours.
We thought that it'd look cooler if the drawers were stairs, floating.
- We could just do the first idea 'cause... - Which is...
- Yeah. 'Cause that makes it... - ...plywood along the sides.
...honestly look like stairs even more.
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 the sides to make it look like a staircase.
- Yeah, yeah, all right, sweet. - That sounds good?
Yeah.
- Awesome. - We can put your skateboard here.
- And we can put mine and his on the side. - We can put...
- Okay - And yours could be here.
Brooks added a really great suggestion which was to personalize our build.
- Looks pretty cool. - That looks really cool.
And that's our own personal touches.
- It's us. - All right.
Just don't forget to sign your name on it.
There you go, now push it in.
- There we go. - That's so smart.
- Of course I messed up. My God. - It's fine. It looks cool like that.
I don't think that was supposed to happen.
Yeah, 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 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 skate-able.
- 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. - Yeah.
- It is. Okay. - Yeah. You look around the other side,
we got some stairs around the other side.
- Some stair cabinets. - You know, if you're not as advanced,
and you wanted to walk up and start on the coping...
- Cool. Nice. - ...or the rail and drop in, you could.
How about the bottoms, where it comes into the ground.
- That looks pretty abrupt. - That's pretty...
You'd have to, like, Ollie to get there and then... and then go, so...
- It needs some work. - Yeah.
- How would you prefer to skate on this? - It's going to 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.
And I just wanna go real fast one way, and just fly over the whole thing.
- Yeah. - That looks like
- the most fun of this obstacle. - Yeah.
So, this one right here is gonna come down with the transition,
and then it goes into a bank. Right?
- Yeah. - Right.
- So... so... - 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 the Blue Team are skaters.
And we're just looking at it, like, in an imaginary way.
But then, he really gave us a link to reality and showed us
that our ramp is a bit too steep for even experienced skaters.
You need at least, at least the length of a skateboard...
- Sure. - ...but I'd go two,
- just so you could get ready... - Two skateboards? Okay.
- ...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 sake on it.
Woo-hoo! That's 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... - Okay.
- that is another transitional piece. - Okay.
Where is the grind box?
- We haven't decided. - Okay.
Well, the day is coming close.
- I know, yeah. - Yeah.
Jonas is a bit confused about how our design
is gonna come together, but I am too, so, I'm a little nervous.
We'll have to think through how you would transition from that...
- ...to this. All right. - I have to think that through, too.
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, I don't really 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. - You feel like you're in school now?
- 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. It comes to a point,
because what we're trying to duplicate is the round head of this screw.
So, if you drill it out with this first, this will sit nice and flush here.
- Okay. - It's called a counter sync 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 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'm gonna 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 actual 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 right here, 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 re-doing stairs.
- All right! There's our line. - Okay. Should we do it even tighter, or...
And you're gonna snap it.
- Perfect. - Look what we got.
- My God! - It's finished!
Standing on your head, sliding down the slide,
swinging, 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.
- We have a new guest with us today. - Hi!
- 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 half-pipe,
he said that it was a bit too steep for him to skate
and I guess one important thing of a skateboard obstacle
- is to make it skate-able. - Yes.
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 would be really cool to think about
and keep going forward with is you have
all these opportunities in different ways you can use it
which I think is awesome.
It's good to have a little bit of way finding and telling.
So someone who is new to skating will feel comfortable coming up
and be like, "Where am I supposed to go? What am I supposed to do?"
I feel like that's, like, the next step for what you guys kinda 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 can start utilizing it to maybe discuss
all the different ways you can use...
- Yeah. I actually... - ...the slide, because...
...have a board right here that says some...
- Yup, this side. - This side.
That says "some fun ways to play" if you look over.
- There are some diagrams here. - Perfect! It's just taking
what you guys done already. That you got a really solid base
and how you build up on that to fully tell the story.
- Okay. - Awesome.
- Thank you for stopping by. - Of course.
I think we could do some arrows maybe and...
- Yeah! - Maybe.
- ...some suggestions? - I am thinking in the middle.
- Okay! - All right.
- Okay. - Builders, you have one hour.
My God. How?
- Yup, 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.
Can't really skate on, like, wooden boards.
That's looking nice.
Super cool.
- Yeah, we gotta hurry! - We have to hurry, come on.
My head was like...
- Just 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 the paint here. - Paint?
And a little there, and then we'll call it good.
Ten minutes.
My gosh!
Man, we have so much to do. I don't know if we're gonna finish it all.
- This is so cool. - Let's hope this sticks.
- These red arrows look amazing. - Yeah, they do.
- Almost done. - Yeah.
- Ten, nine, eight... - Right here, right here.
- ...seven... - Come on!
- This is... - ...six, five...
- Okay, I got it. - ...four, three...
- Excuse me, excuse me! - ...two, one...
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.
Woo!
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.
Woo! All right! Good job, little lady.
- Great job. - Good job.
I have to 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.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Okay. Stop showing off, Jonas.
Builders, over the last three days, you have designed
and built your own skate obstacles. So, we're going to check them all out.
Let's start with the Gold Team's. Yeah?
- Is that cool? - Yeah.
Trent, talk us through this obstacle. What are we looking at here?
So, we started with the 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...
- So cool. - ...and just want to walk up and drop in,
you can. Skating was kind of born out of counterculture,
and our goal was to, kind of, rebel against the teacher,
and skate up and over the teacher's desk...
- Yeah. It's cool! - ...right?
Okay. Everyone clear the area,
it's time for Jonas to christen your creation.
Come on, go for it. All right.
Whoo!
Jonas Wray, you get off my desk right now!
I mean it!
Where's the medic, by the way?
- That was awesome. - Thanks,
- that was fun. That was fun. - That was really cool.
Does it compare to other obstacles and other ramps?
It looks familiar but it doesn't feel familiar.
- Okay. - It's a little lumpy and...
- Okay. So, you want it smoother? - Yes, I 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 going to use it. - Hey.
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...
- Okay. - ...on the inside.
Because, of course, we know that street skating evolved from surfing.
- Of course. - So we wanted to make sure our ramp
kind of 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. - Of course. So where's the real locker?
- That's real. - The real locker, that's the half
- of the real locker. - 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! - We used...
- Okay. - ...the locker to the fullest.
- It looks really cool, I love... - Thank you.
...how you've incorporated all the history...
- Thank you. - ...and art. Well, let's see
- how it skates, though. - Yeah.
- 'Cause that's the real test. Okay. - Yeah. That's the goal.
Go for it!
Yeah!
Wow!
Yeah!
Yes, yes, yes!
Well, thank you so much, Jonas. What do you...
What are your thoughts, in terms of skate-ability?
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 and thank you, Blue Team, great job.
- Thank you! - All right! Green Team, you're up.
- 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. - Then it says,
"Keep calm and skate on".
- Where'd you get that? - I thought of it, because...
Classic Chloe. Yeah.
Tell me about the hill that you put on the slide.
Lance thought of the idea to pick the middle up.
Green Team, I love the design.
- It looks really cool. - Thank you.
I think it's time for Jonas to do what he does best.
Yeah!
Wow.
Whoa! Whoa!
Nice!
- That was fun. - So good!
- All right. - So good.
Well, 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'd get twisted and thrown.
The different ramps have not enough layering.
You could feel every single rib on the way down.
With proper layering, you could actually fly out and fly in.
Gotcha! Judges, join me in the middle. We're going to have a little huddle up
and talk about what we just saw. You guys...
Keep calm. Just keep calm...
- Okay. - ...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. Okay. - 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 really fun way to, kind of, re-invent the wheel.
And I remember you guys were, kind of, 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 have approached it from the back,
you know, with the bar being there...
...you just, kind of, can't get to it. But, that's a design element,
that you can figure out.
- Thanks. - Thank you.
- You're welcome.
I love that you took something incredibly iconic,
like this school desk, and re-used it
and re-purposed it in a totally new way. 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 angles might have been adjusted
a little bit more, so you can 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 cool, yeah. - Thank you.
Audrey, what are your feelings on Gold Team?
Well, I do really like the colors 'cause my hair does match it.
Um. 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
and 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 pieces.
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 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 on to it would be awesome.
Well, guys, you did an incredible, knock-out job.
I love the attention to detail that you put on the sides
with your skateboards and your names.
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 looks 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.
I thought it would be very intimidating to ride on.
And when I saw Jonas ride it, and saw how much 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 ten percent is always
the hardest part, and I loved the fact that you had that extra ramp,
so 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 over 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 re-used those
to create that wave is really cool.
I think, we're on agreement that they all look awesome.
However, as you know, there's only one team moving on to the semi-finals.
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... - Yeah.
- ...because, he thought it was fun,
and he wanted to skate it more. So that was cool.
Did you see when he launched over?
- That was like the coolest thing ever. - That was cool, and he was doing
a flip and everything. 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 semi-finals.
The judges have deliberated and the winning team is...
The Green Team.
No way!
- Yeah! - No way!
- Feels amazing... - So excited!
- ...that we won! - No way!
Lance, Chloe and Selah earned an A for their skate park obstacle,
and are advancing to the semi-finals.
Blue Team and Gold Team, you are 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 semi-finals, okay?
We'll be there!
- All right! - Semi-finals, here we come.
Good job. Nice job.
And then, do a five for me.
Boing!
I'll see you soon.