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Students Turn Pumpkin Smash Into Lesson About Environment

It turns out pumpkins left in landfills create a big problem, since they emit methane gas.

CHICAGO (CBS) — Catapulting pumpkins at a Chicago high school turned into a lesson about the environment and engineering.

Students at Chicago Vocational Career Academy, also known as CVS, built a large structure to hurl Halloween leftovers into a large dumpster.

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