Boston University’s iconic Pumpkin Drop turns rotting pumpkins into tools for science. Hosted by the Physics Department, the event features pumpkins thrown from the Metcalf Science Center roof ...

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Boston University hosted their annual pumpkin drop on Wednesday. Students gather at the Metclaf Science Center where other students drop pumpkins off the roof of the fourth story of that building ...

The Colorado Springs School (CSS) has partnered with the fire department (CSFD) in order to host a pumpkin drop of epic proportions that serves to further education through engineering principles.

Following the Pumpkin Drop, the university's physics department hosted a Physics Carnival. This extension of the event provides students with more hands-on science experiments.

The annual pumpkin drop and physics carnival took place Friday morning at Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus. The crowd went wild as each pumpkin splattered from the university's four ...

Each classroom in the kindergarten through sixth grade received a pumpkin to drop from a 50-foot ladder. The Whitestown Fire Department helps in the pumpkin drop by providing the ladder.

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It’s raining gourds: Elementary students learn science through pumpkin drop ...

Look out below!Boston University students will be dropping dozens of pumpkins off the roof of a building Friday -- for science! For the 15th consecutive year, students in the physics department ...

The school is also holding a pumpkin decorating contest, just in time for Halloween. Students vote for their favorite pumpkin by bringing in canned goods, which are then donated to the needy.

Look out below! Students watched Friday as the Boston University physics department dropped pumpkins out of the sky for the fifteenth year in a row. An overhead view of the aftermath of the 15th ...