How do you max out an egg drop? With pumpkins, of course! Material science is the focus of this episode: nitinol, ulexite, carbon nanotubes, hagfish slime, aerogel and a great deal of squashed ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

How do you max out an egg drop? With pumpkins, of course! Material science is the focus of this episode: nitinol, ulexite, carbon nanotubes, hagfish slime, aerogel and a great deal of squashed ...

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.

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 ...

Kids swarm the drop zone to pick up pieces of pumpkins after the annual pumpkin drop at Chico State on Thursday, October 31, 2019, in Chico, Califronia. (Matt Bates/Enterprise-Record file) ...

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.