"Uplifting, lively, feel-good documentary."
- VARIETY
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Over 2000 kids. 400 teams nationwide. Eight months of brainstorming, designing and building. One goal: to create the next great toy. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED chronicles six teams of determined teenagers as they navigate ‘the game of life’ on their quest to win the national toy invention crown.
A gigantic thank you and congratulations to all the incredible Toy Challenge Inventors and their tremendous coaches and parents.
CAST
WACKY WATER BALL
Saddle Brook Middle School / Saddlebrook, New Jersey
Mike Burns
Kiersten Digiacomo
Danielle Grosso
Vinny Laurentino
Nick Natoli
Kelsey Williams
Coach: Marilyn Ryan
BUGA BOARD
Renbrook School / West Hartford, CT
Nick D’Aiuto
Taylor Jett
Garth Miller
Heather Stork
Will Stevens
Olivia Vehslage
Coach: Toby Goodrich
PUNCH ‘EM OUT
Brighton, Michigan
Erin Daugherty
Kayla Daugherty
Chrissy Redmond
Karen Redmond
Kelly Redmond
Natalie Sanders
Coach: Pat Redmond
THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE
Girl Scout Team / Washington, D.C.
Lara Barth
Lizzie Bubes
Hannah Guidry
Charlotte Harrison
Katie Kirlin
Maya Rovner
Coach: Michelle Shahan
TRI TO SURVIVE
Mott Hall School / Harlem, New York
Michelle Lopez
Nicholas Medina
Michelle Media
Renzo Moyano
Rosemary Santos
Coach: Bobbie Matthews
WHICH WAY WILL YOU GO
Mott Hall School / Harlem, NY
Karmin Calderon
Fabriana Larancuent
Ruby Roco
Andrea Treus
Coach: Bobbie Matthews
TOY CHALLENGE / SALLY RIDE SCIENCE TEAM
Wes Brumitt
Francis French
Brandon Leck
Jessica O’Brien
Marcia Reed
Brenda Wilson
Karen Flammer
Karen Hom
Joe McClune
Tam O’Shaughnessy
Ralene M. Teixeira
Tiffany Wong
DIRECTOR
DORI BERINSTEIN
PRODUCER
DORI BERINSTEIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
DR. SALLY RIDE
COORDINATING PRODUCER
TOM LAMERE
SEGMENT PRODUCER
TRACEY GUDWIN
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
TONY HARDMON
MILES MONTALBANO
ASSISTANT EDITOR / POST SUPERVISOR
MIRANDA YOUSEF
MOTION GRAPHICS
BRIAN OAKES
MUSIC
CRAIG SHARMAT
EDITOR
DOUG BUSH
TREMENDOUS THANKS
THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PLANNING GRANT
STUDIO
DRAMATIC FORCES and SALLY RIDE SCIENCE
GENRE
DOCUMENTARY
RELEASED
MARCH 2008
RUN TIME
92 MINUTES
RATING
PG