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Repair-O’-Lantern Pumpkin Carving Contest!

Get ready for a pumpkin-tastic challenge that’s sure to make you chuckle and chortle.

Are you ready to carve out some gourd-geous masterpieces and join the wacky world of Repair-O’-Lanterns? We’re asking you to unleash your inner DIY pumpkin genius by carving a repair-themed pumpkin.

You can carve your pumpkin with your favorite iFixit tool (no promises that it’ll work), of your favorite iFixit tool. A design of a repair logo (we think iFixit’s is pretty neat), or even of a broken device.

Honestly, you can carve anything into your pumpkin that represents repair. Just be ready to explain it if we’re confused. Heck, even the words “Right-to-Repair” count. For non-repair friendly manufacturers, those words alone are a little scary.

Carve, craft, and get scooping on your Repair-O’-Lantern masterpiece, because the winner will be treated to a prize that’s sure to make you “shriek” with delight! So, grab your tools, gather your pumpkin, and join us for this contest!

Once you’ve carved your design, share a picture of your masterpiece (and even some of the process) with the #iFixit on your favorite social media platform or stay here and post your picture(s) of your creation in this thread. 

The winner of the contest will win a precision cleaning kit and the electronics cleaning bundle to tackle your scariest messes. We’ll contact winners on November 1st.

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While we would love to be able to send prizes to all parts of the planet, shipping restrictions prevent us from delivering to places unsupported by our US and EU warehouses.

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Sounds cool! Is the deadline for submission 10/31/23 at 11:59pm, and if so, is that for the specific commenter's time zone? Thanks!

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Great question! We were so excited we forgot to include a time! Posts need to be turned in by November 1st at 0900 a.m. PST. We'll hop over to the blog and update this Meta post to add this information.

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@krisrodriguez - When Will the results be released?

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All participants have been emailed!

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I couldn't wait until all hallows eve to carve mine. Hope you guys like it :)

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Not bad! You deserve an upvote! lemme just do that real-quick.

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@beanman56 Thanks! I thought it would be cool to trace their screwdriver in there. Its seriously the best

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I wish I had taken photos of the process but it didn't cross my mind because my hands were full of pumpkin guts

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@amber - Sorry it's so late, We're studying hard on the leaked schematics for the 2024 Pumpkin(s) (Schematics will be released soon.)

Don't tell the farmers we did this... HAHAHA!

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Hope you like it!

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@beanman56, This is so cool!

My only concern is that you've admitted to being in possession of leaked schematics. We don't know how that impacts our relationship with the pumpkin lobbyists and the FAOPP (Farmer's Association of Pumpkin Producers).

We'll take your entry, but we need to clear the air with them first :)

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@krisrodriguez - I hope I don't get sued.

Thanks!

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I hope you don't either!

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