An internal email went around on Monday:
Ready, Set, CARVE!!!!
Back by popular demand, we are excited to offer a Nationwide Pumpkin Carving Contest in support of United Way.
In teams of up to 4 people, create and carve your most supreme pumpkin. With a team entrance fee of $20.00, teams can carve their pumpkins in their respective offices on October 27th and 28th.
All teams will have a 2-hour timeslot to design and carve their pumpkins.  Picture(s) of the final creation with the name for submission as well as all of the team members should be sent to myself at {redacted}. We will be creating an online voting form for all employees to cast their vote for the best pumpkin, for a price of $2.00 per vote.
So I rounded up a team of Dave M., Debbie and Sepideh and we started planning. This afternoon we carved our pumpkins.
I think they turned out pretty well.
Most excellent !!! Should be a winner..