Three decorated pumpkins

Pumpkin Fundraiser

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College of Health

3rd Annual Viking Pumpkin Patch Fundraiser for Lift Up Vikes!

All proceeds to Lift Up Vikes! CSU student food pantry located on Berkman Hall first floor

Who: College of Health, pre-Professional Healthcare, and Pathways 2 Practice Faculty, Staff, and Students.

How to participate:

  1. Buy and decorate a pumpkin: buy a pie pumpkin (typically 5-6 pounds) from your local grocery store. 

Then decorate your pumpkin and return to the Dean’s office by Monday October 27th  at 5pm (see below for decorating rules).  Award winners (People’s Choice, Best Health-Related Theme) will be voted via Qualtrics survey and a celebrity judge will choose the overall winner by October 30th.  No decorated pumpkins will be returned to their creators. 

Contest is open to faculty, staff and students in the College of Health.

  2. Enter to win a decorated pumpkin:  Starting now, buy a raffle ticket (from the Dean’s office or email Taliah Wiggins (t.s.wiggins50@csuohio.edu) or  Bess Antol (e.antol@csuohio.edu)  if you want to participate but aren’t sure you can get to the Dean’s office.  A chance to win a decorated pumpkin is only $1 per ticket or $10 for an “arm’s length of tickets.” Raffle tickets close on the 28th at 4:30pm.  Winners will be notified via email on Oct 29th and should pick up their pumpkins no later than 4pm on October 31st.  Subsequent pumpkin pickup for the winners is first come first served (so no guarantee that you can get that one you fancied, but of course more ticket entries improve your chances of taking home one of them).

  3. Make a monetary contribution for Lift Up Vikes! at the Dean’s office from Oct 8th-Oct 31st if you wish.

Best Decorated Prizes:

In addition to bragging rights, a gift certificate will be awarded to the winner of each category below:

Categories:

Best in Show (determined by “CSU celebrity” judge)

Best health-related theme (determined by a college vote)

People’s choice (determined by a college vote)

Decorating rules:

  1. No carving (we can’t have any rotting before the end of the contest).
  2. Name your pumpkin (puns are appreciated! But see rule #4).
  3. Decorations and pumpkins will not be returned (don’t use anything you want back).
  4. Decorations/names should be “family friendly”; and
  5. Please go ahead and use paint, glue, paper, vinyl, well-adhered glitter, accessories, foam, feathers, and whatever other crafty materials you wish!