"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