Every program, one afternoon.

The Showcase is the least formal and biggest event of the year. Camp teams set up stations across the building and the courtyard, families wander, and by 3 p.m. there are 400 people in a building licensed for 220. The fire marshal knows us. It is fine.

What is on display

• Build teams: the go-kart, the trailer, the structure, and whatever did not work, with an explanation of why.
• Grow teams: the garden system, the seed library, and the hydroponic rig that survived.
• Fix teams: 30 refurbished bikes, lined up in the alley, given away at 4 p.m.
• Perform teams: a 20-minute show in the auditorium at 2:00 and again at 4:00.
• The salon: free trims for kids, mannequin practice for anyone who wants to try.

The shark

In 2022 a build team made a 14-foot cardboard shark. It did not fit through the workshop door and had to be partially disassembled, which the team had not planned for and handled with grace. The shark has come back every year since, in a different form, and is now the unofficial mascot of the Showcase. Last year it was a shark-shaped puppet. The year before it was a shark-shaped bench.