My 16 year old son, Aidan, and some his friends Alex, Diego, and Matias designed and built a float, a giant orange cat named "B'Dough" (pronounced with a long o and hard g) for the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade. Alex was inside of B'Dough for the almost 2 hours it took to get from their starting postition to the end of the parade. Check out their website (a work in progress): http://www.bdough.com/ and their blog: http://bdoughforeveryone.blogspot.com/