JESSICA WARD: This is the fifth
year of the Cardboard
Canoe Race.
We get teams of 25 partners,
where they have 90 minutes to
build a canoe that will fit both
them and their partner.
And they have to use a pile of
cardboard, two garbage bags,
one roll of duct tape,
and one box cutter.
And that's it.
Those are the only supplies
they are given.
KATE KANEKA: I guess our
strategy is, because we are
not science students but we're
small, we're just making our
boat as small as possible.
SUMMER SHAW: As small
as possible.
KATE KANEKA: And--
SUMMER SHAW: And streamlined.
KATE KANEKA: Yeah,
and very strong.
SUMMER SHAW: Strong,
but streamlined.
CHRIS LANDO: So, our basic game
plan here is we're going
to have the boat that
gets across fastest.
JUNYA TAKAHASHI: Yeah.
CHRIS LANDO: And--
JUNYA TAKAHASHI: We're
going to do it by
building the best boat.
That's key.
And then after we have the best
boat, we're going to row
the fastest.
JENNY WU: Our design plan is to
make sort of like a raft,
and use structural supports
would be more like triangles.
And these are areas where we
can't really step on, so that
means that we have a narrow
area in the middle that we
could step on.
So that means that it minimizes
the chance that
we'll capsize.
ERIC HAGSTROM: So, our strategy
is we're trying to
create like on pontoon boat--
think like Castaway or
something--
where we've--
If you take a look here, the
boxes, we've taped them up so
that the coarse edges are
covered by duct tape.
And the cardboard edges are
actually relatively like
[KNOCKING ON CARDBOARD].
They don't absorb water.
And so, we're filling up a bunch
of boxes, attaching them
to a board on top, and then
we'll be riding the other side
of the board, and these
will keep us afloat.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANDREW CHAN: It feels
encouraging that our design
was sufficient to last
the entire lap.