Pumpkins to Take Flight
Catapults Will Toss the Big Orange Fruit Downfield at Titan Stadium
Students prepare a pumpkin launcher
Pumpkins may seem scary sitting on porches this Halloween night, but the next day, Saturday, Nov. 1, they become fodder in a catapult competition in Titan Stadium at Cal State Fullerton.
Teams with six-foot-high trebuchets and catapults will loft 15-pound pumpkins at targets 150 feet and more away while families and engineering fans cheer on the competitors.
It is part of a free 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pumpkin Launch festival sponsored by Cal State Fullerton’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, Santa Ana’s Discovery Science Center and the Future Scientists and Engineers of America.
The point? Family Halloween fun and fun in science, engineering and technology, said Julie Smith of the Discovery Science Center.
Games, entertainment and displays of odd projects — like a concrete canoe developed by CSUF engineering students — are in the mix, as is judging for best carved pumpkin brought to the festival.
The pumpkin-flinging teams are awarded for hits and, in case of a tie, a “shootout” will be staged to decide the winners. The winners get technology internships in the Orange County area.
Titan Stadium on the campus of Cal State Fullerton is off Yorba Linda Boulevard, just west of the Orange Freeway (57).
Media Contacts:
Sergio Guerra, College of Engineering and Computer Science, 657-278-2887 or sguerra@fullerton.edu
Russ L. Hudson, Public Affairs, 657-278-4007 or rhudson@fullerton.edu
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