Milwaukee School of Engineering hosted Make48, where 8 high school teams had to design and prototype a new product teams used their creativity and problem-solving skills to bring their ideas to life.
It's mud season, so Jimmy designs a modular tool shed inside his shop before final assembly in his backyard.
Jimmy builds his first canoe, a 15-ft. Ranger he constructs a strongback that supports the canoe during the build, cuts the stems, or station molds that form the hull's shape, and adds the strips.
Working with materials found around the shop, Jimmy builds a guillotine to cut through a burrito and steel gates with white oak insets for his property.
Jimmy forges a latch for a chicken coop, combining several different bending techniques Jimmy makes a triple-flip table from steel, creating three workstations for shop machinery.
After discovering rot in her porch supports, April installs temporary jacks and shares how to pour concrete and prevent decay then, she designs a folding wooden chair and a mobile herb planter.
Paul builds giant mechanical wooden hands and a life-size nutcracker made out of almost 2,000 pieces of wood.
Working with his favorite material - pallet wood - Paul handcrafts 40 candles and 1,000 pencils he machines a map of metro DC onto yellow pine boards from an 1880 row house.
Laura makes a 3-legged stool with through tenons and builds a folding chair then, she makes a plywood sink sealed with epoxy and an adjustable coffee table for an overhead projector.
From mini workbench to a loft bed for a friend and a pepper grinder inspired by a baseball bat named Lucille, Laura creates a series of woodworking projects.
Jamison and Jamie reinforce the floor joists and move the staircase, tear out the second-floor walls and insulation, and install soundproofing between floors.
Jamison and the crew install large ground-level windows and patio doors, hang insulation, and put down a floating, insulated floor.
Anne joins Greg Pennington in his Tennessee workshop to learn how to handcraft a democratic chair then, Anne offers a tutorial on the different styles and sizes of chisels.
Anne incorporates her Windsor chair making skills to build her first mandolin then, Anne winterizes her farm and reminisces about some of her most memorable homesteading projects.
Jason makes a mid-century-inspired, backless white oak storage hutch he offers additional tips for making inset cabinet doors and then assembles and finishes the final cabinet.
Jason takes on the ultimate camping conversion of a mid-sized station wagon he builds interior cabinets, sliding drawers and compartments, and adds a roof-mounted solar panel.
Brad replaces the tile floor in his bathroom with a large format tile then, he upgrades his workbench, adding cabinetry, clamp storage, and dust collection.
Brad installs vinyl flooring in his laundry room and designs a nightstand with cutout walnut drawer fronts, adding a hidden compartment with a secret button.
Critiquing marketing strategies, packaging, product video creation and social media strategies.
The prototyping and fine-tuning continues with industry experts the process and technology that goes into product creation, such as 3D printing and laser cutting.