Approximately 50 students from five northern New Jersey schools matched engineering wits in a competition to determine who designed the catapult that could launch pumpkins the farthest into Lake ...

With a hissing "fwoomp," a pumpkin flew from an 80-foot air cannon called Gourds in Space. The projectile nearly disappeared into the clouds over an alfalfa field in the Butler Creek Valley. After an ...

Pumpkins soared through the air on the morning of Oct. 25 at Osborne Park in Willoughby. It happened during the ninth annual Pumpkin Chunkin event sponsored by Willoughby Parks and Recreation. This ...

During fall, there are many traditions in Indiana. We expect crunchy colorful leaves, pumpkin-spiced goods, hoodies and crisp weather. The star of the season is, naturally, the pumpkin. Many utilize ...

Mark Harris loads a pumpkin onto a catapult (trebuchet) Saturday at Washington State College of Ohio in Marietta during the second annual Pumpkin Chuckin’ event. Organizers wanted to show off aspects ...

October is here, which means it’s time for scary costumes, haunted houses and Halloween candy being sold everywhere you look. But for students at some area high schools, October brings on a new ...

BAY VILLAGE, Ohio -- Have you ever wondered what happens when a well-meaning group of middle schoolers gets together with the mindset of giving flight to a fleet of pumpkins? The sixth-grade students ...

The Aludium Q36 Pumpkin Modulator is a pumpkin-launching cannon, just one of many contraptions used at the Punkin Chuckin Contest outside Peoria. There’s something inherently hilarious about watching ...

The "Spooky Smasher" catapult launches a pumpkin into the air. The annual "Punkin' Chunkin'" event was held at Cahoon Park across from Bay Village Middle school. Pumpkins soared through the air at ...

About 1,000 years ago, during medieval times, the trebuchet (pronounced treh-boo-shay) was the ultimate war weapon, a contraption with the ability to throw boulders and other heavy objects higher and ...

In Goffstown, they celebrated everything *** pumpkin can be decoration, status symbol. Kitchen appliance transportation. Artillery These devices will get medieval on your gourd, but don't call this ...