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FULLERTON – When Discovery Science Center educators coined their event Saturday morning a ''pumpkin launch," they weren't kidding.
In an engineering experiment gone awry, a pumpkin shot from a makeshift cannon aimed at two plywood targets about 50 yards away, instead catapulted more than 120 yards across Titan Stadium at Cal State Fullerton, crashing through the scoreboard
'Pumpkin launch' damages CSUF college scoreboard | pumpkin, students, engineering, center, science - News - OCRegister.com