AWARDS

2020 Sandcastle Classic Award Categories

Even though we can’t meet in person this year for the 38th Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic, we’ll still be celebrating all the incredible accomplishments of this year’s Sandcastle teams! The winners to the following 2020 Sandcastle Classic awards listed below will be announced during the Leap Sandcastle Classic on October 24th.

• 1st Place: Most Team Points Earned*
• 2nd Place: Team Points Earned
• 3rd Place: Team Points Earned
• Best Participation of Students: Based on the demonstration of student involvement pictured in each team’s Sandcastle Team Board.
• Top Fundraising Team
• + additional acknowledgements and honorary mentions

*Teams compete for points based on these categories.

---

2019 Sandcastle Classic Award Winners

Leap’s 37th Annual Sandcastle Classic returned to Ocean Beach on 10/26/19, and 25 teams comprised of over 90 companies and 26 schools took to the beach, cheered on by hundreds of spectators. This year’s theme was “Let’s Play,” and there was no shortage of creative and show-stopping interpretations of the theme.

 

Check out the “Best of the Beach”

Honorary Mention Award Winners!

2018 Sandcastle Classic Award Winners

Leap’s 36th Annual Sandcastle Classic returned to Ocean Beach on 11/3/18, and 24 teams comprised of over 90 companies and 26 schools took to the beach, cheered on by hundreds of spectators. This year’s theme was “Building Bridges,” and there was no shortage of creative and show-stopping interpretations of the theme.

---

2017 Sandcastle Classic Award Winners

THANK YOU for making this year’s Classic truly special! Aside from incredible sand sculptures, a successful fundraiser, and smiling students, we enjoyed excellent turnout and perfect weather conditions. Congratulations to our winning teams:

Best in Show – Golden Shovel: Sandy Bucket Brigade

Best in Show – Silver: Dolphin Knights

Best in Show – Bronze: Sandstorm Troopers

Top Fundraising Team: Sandy Bucket Brigade

Best T-Shirt: Knights of the Bay

Best Site Sign: Emperors of Sand

Best Student Participation: Dolphin Knights

---

2016 Sandcastle Classic Award Winners

Leap’s 34th Annual Sandcastle Classic returned to Ocean Beach on 10/15/16, and 27 teams comprised of architects, builders, designers and students took to the beach, cheered on by hundreds of spectators. This year’s theme was “Makers and Movers,” and there was no shortage of creative and show-stopping interpretations including: a Thingamabobatron, moon rovers, space ships, octopi and more. Check out photos from the 34th Annual Sandcastle Classic on Leap’s Facebook and Flickr Pages.

Best in Show: Wave Makers

Audio Visual Design Group
BKF Engineers
Interface Engineering
Taylor Design
Truebeck Construction
Lafayette Elementary School

The event’s highest honor, Best in Show, went to team “Wave Makers.” Their castle featured animatronic dolphins cresting in the waves controlled by a remote device.

Photo Credit: James Knox (photo below)

  Photo Credit: Anar Seyf (photo below)

---

Best in Show Silver: The Musketeers (photo below)

Blanco Architecture
HKS, Inc.
Moroso Construction
Paradigm Floors
Claire Lilienthal School

---

Best in Show Bronze: MakerSAND Movers (photo below)

Siegel & Strain Architects
Clark Construction
Holmes Culley
McMillen Jacobs Associates
Berkley Maynard Academy

---

Top Fundraising Team and People’s Choice Award: The Roller Coast-ers

HerreroBoldt
PlanGrid
Ratcliff Architects
SmithGroupJJR
Van Ness and Geary Hospital Project
Saint Luke’s Hospital Project
Hillcrest Elementary School

Photo Credit: Rose Hartley (photo below)

---

Best Participation of Students: Silicon Beach

Butler Armsden Architects
Clayton Timbrell & Company
Geoffrey De Sousa Interior Design
Strandberg Engineering
Commodore Sloat Elementary School

Photo Credit: James Knox (photo below)

---

Best Site Sign: DuneBuggies

Rudolph and Sletten
Rutherford + Chekene
WRNS Studio
West Portal Elementary

Photo Credit: Anar Seyf (photo below)

---

Best Team T-Shirt: SandBlasters

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Clarendon JBBP Elementary School

Photo Credit: James Knox (photo below)

---

2015 Sandcastle Classic Award Winners