Chandler Wallace, left, and Brady Bales watch a tomato launch as Central High School's STEM class tries out catapults and trebuchets that they made in class on April 31, 2015. Central High School's ...

West Texas A&M hosted its annual Pumpkin Chunkin contest Thursday afternoon, pitting student teams’ designs against each other to deliver pumpkins downrange, with an emphasis on accuracy. The contest, ...

In the world of pumpkin chunkin - using catapults, sometimes even cannons, to send pumpkins hundreds of feet in the air - Jim Fuller, also known as "Fat Jimmy," is a legend. He was working in ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - If you put a pumpkin in a homemade catapult, how far will it fly? That's the question some high school students will answer Saturday at a pumpkin chunkin' contest in Lexington.

Rowan University has a little competition every fall straight out of the Middle Ages called pumpkin chunkin. How far can you fling a pumpkin using a trebuchet, a trebuchet, you have to design. The ...

“The challenge has a lot of physics and math involved at the design stage,” he said. “Then there (are) the skills of drawing and measuring and, finally, problem solving. “Punkin’ Chunkin’ lets us take ...