Hey Bangor: Let’s Launch Pumpkins & Eat Ice Cream To Celebrate Space!

This is one of those awesome crossroads where all the things you love intersect: Did you know that you can launch pumpkins and eat ice cream this weekend to celebrate space?!

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Each year, the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor holds a Pumpkin Catapult, but this year, there's a special twist!

According to organizers, this year's even will be to celebrate the launch of a really cool satellite, the Europa Clipper, which was sent 1.8 billion light years away, to Jupiter's moon, Eruopa, to see if anyone could ever live there!

" At the pumpkin catapult launch party participants will:

1) Receive a small pumpkin and supplies to decorate and personalize to create their own “satellite”

2) Complete a NASA art challenge and submit for a chance to be featured by NASA!

3) Experience the scale of the solar system first hand with VR!

4) Have the opportunity to discuss satellites made here in Maine at the University of Maine with a member of the WiSe-Net Lab."

After all the "science" stuff is done, it's time to have some fun!

At that point folks will be able to catapult their pumpkins into the air.

Ant then, for the final bit of fanfare, people can celebrate their "gourdly"-launch, and outter-space, by eating ice cream!

The Darling's Ice Cream for a Cause Truck be on-site taking donations for the Challenger Learning Center.

This year's Pumpkin Catapult will take place Saturday October 26th from 9 AM to 12:30 PM at 30 Venture Way in Bangor, the location of the Challenger Learning Center.

For more information you can call Challenger Maine. Their phone number is 207-990-2900.

If you think that sounds like a fun idea, and you're into space, you might dig these photos!