NASA Engineers Show Off Their Pumpkin Carving Skills During Contest

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Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Even NASA engineers get into the Halloween spirit with their very own annual pumpkin carving contest. This year, the engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California held their contest to coincide with JPL’s birthday.

The unofficial pumpkin carving contest, now in its seventh year, featured everything from robots that fight, a pumpkin pirate ship, E.T., a moving pumpkin musician, the cookie-loving pumpkin monster and many other creative pumpkin designs.

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

View more pumpkin carving creations on NASA JPL’s Flickr account here.

Let us know in the comments below which of these NASA engineer pumpkin carving designs is your favorite!