First photo, Daniel Mason (from left) watches as Steve Amburn and Frederick
Doutey, first-year members of the Tulsa Engineering Academy at Memorial High
School, drop a pumpkin encased in a protective enclosure from the top of LaFortune
Stadium on Tuesday. The students’ assignment was to design a device that
would keep a pumpkin from breaking when dropped from the height of a low-flying
helicopter. Second photo, Russell Shook (left) and Michael Kropiewnicki, first-year members
of the engineering academy, check the pumpkin that they dropped from the
top of LaFortune Stadium. Third photo, Molly Wahl, a first-year member of the academy,
drops a pumpkin enclosed in a plastic bag with other shock-absorbing material.