Pumpkins and Powertools 2019
Hosted by DaBL
This marks the first year that DaBL has hosted a halloween themed event and it was a graveyard smash! Inspired by a similar event from MIT, the goal was to carve a pumpkin using some nonconventional tools. Many of these tools may be unfamiliar to students, especially in this medium, but through a lot of peer to peer teaching, we achieved quite a number of successful jack-o'-lanterns. Drills were used to create pilot holes that could be used to guide hand or electric saws. The electric saws employed also made cutting the tops of pumpkins a lot easier. The most useful tool might have been the kitchen hand mixers which served as a clever way to extract a lot of the pumpkin core. Check out some of the snapshots below and join us next year for a host of pumpkin fun!
![Student Pumpkin Design Students working on pumpkin designs](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0228-1.jpg)
![DaBL Pumpkin Pumpkin carved with the word DaBL](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0238.jpg)
![Pumpkin etching Student etching designs on pumpkin](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0241.jpg)
![Pumpkin cleaning Students extract the insides of pumpkin](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0255.jpg)
![DaBL student and pumpkin One of DaBL's students with pumpkin](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0274.jpg)
![Group photo Group of students with finished pumpkins](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0279.jpg)
![Pumpkin word The word pumpkin written on construction paper](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0231.jpg)
![Student & DaBL Student holding pumpkin labeled DaBL](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0237.jpg)
![Pumpkin designing Student carving design into pumpkin](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0269.jpg)
![Student & Pumpkin Student holding finished carved pumpking](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0275.jpg)
![Group pumpkin word Group of students working on their pumpkins](http://designandbuildlab.com/main/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0268.jpg)