Halloween is over, and it's time to chuck those pumpkins...and UMR students were literally chucking pumpkins (albeit small ones) last night out at the UMR soccer field. Using various contraptions that ranged from catapults to mechanized boots, the students tried to launch the pumpkins into several circles painted on the grass. Teams with the most accuracy and power competed for the first annual UMR pumpkin chucking championship. (If anyone knows who the winners were, leave us their names in the comments.) The students who participated are all enrolled in Engineering 111, an experiential design class.

We would be remiss if we didn't mention that this whole pumpkin chucking thing reminds us of the time Chris on Northern Exposure got the idea (from a Monty Python movie) to build a huge catapult in order to fling a cow. (He ended up flinging a piano.)