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A Smashing Good Time

Hurling gourds from an 11-story building — what better way to get kids interested in engineering? For its annual pumpkin drop, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers challenges local school children to design an apparatus to protect a pumpkin during the potentially devastating free fall.

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Related: College of Engineering and Mineral Resources | 2008 Pumpkin Drop

Participant crosses fingers while waiting for his pumpkin to hit the ground

Nov. 3, 2008