Can your pumpkin survive the fall? 🍬🎈 In this hands-on STEM challenge, students become young engineers as they design and test a parachute to protect a candy pumpkin from impact. Using simple materials like tissue paper, plastic bags, and string, learners will explore gravity, air resistance, and problem-solving in a fun fall-themed experiment. We’ll start by discussing how parachutes work and what makes some objects fall faster than others. Then, students will plan, build, and test their parachute design, making adjustments along the way to improve their results. By the end, every student will have learned the basics of the engineering design process—plan, build, test, and improve—while having a blast dropping their pumpkin “passenger.” This class encourages creativity, collaboration, and curiosity in a non-competitive environment. Students can even compete in a friendly challenge to see whose pumpkin takes the slowest fall!