Belpre Elementary School third-grader Kinsley Lee, right, inspects a pumpkin that survived – mostly – intact after being thrown in a box off the roof of the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center Monday during the school’s annual Pumpkin Drop as classmates Marleyna Whitlatch, left, and Aubrey Haynes, who helped pack the box with protective materials, look on. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Third-grader Marleyna Whitlatch picks up the container she and her female classmates designed to allow a pumpkin to survive being thrown from the roof of the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center Monday during Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Clockwise from left, third-grade classmates Marleyna Whitlatch, Kinsley Lee and Aubrey Haynes frantically unpack a box to see if the pumpkin they placed inside survived being thrown from the roof of the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center Monday during Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

A decorated box containing a pumpkin and materials designed to help it survive the impact at the bottom plummets from the roof of the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center Monday during Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Belpre Elementary School staff and volunteers toss a pumpkin in a box – with a parachute attached – from the roof of the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center during the school’s annual Pumpkin Drop event, in which students try to create containers that will keep the gourds from being squashed when they hit the ground. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Ghostbuster Tyler Rozzetti, 4, of Belpre, receives candy from Joyce Stanley with McCarthy Real Estate, right, who participated in Monday’s Belpre Elementary School PTO Trunk or Treat with Arcadia Valley Skilled Nursing Home. The Trunk or Treat preceded the annual Pumpkin Drop, in which students tried to create containers that would keep the gourds inside from being squashed when they hit the ground. (Photo by Evan Bevins)

Decorated boxes sit on the roof of the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center Monday prior to the start of Belpre Elementary School’s annual Pumpkin Drop event, in which students tried to create containers that would keep the gourds inside from being squashed when they hit the ground. (Photo by Evan Bevins)