Project Pumpkin

Project Pumpkin is a signature student-led community-building event that began in an effort to bring together both the campus and Winston-Salem communities started by Wake Forest student Libby Bell (’93) in 1989.

This year’s event will take place on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, from 3-6 PM on Hearn Plaza. The event is open to the community and suggested for children in K-5th grade. Please check your child in at the tent labeled “Office of Civic and Community Engagement” beside Wait Chapel and drop off your pre-filled permission slip.

Since its inception more than 30 years ago, Wake Forest students, faculty and staff have partnered with multiple local schools and agencies to bring children to the Reynolda Campus and create a fall festival that includes trick-or-treating, entertainment, and educational activities. Around 400 children from local schools and after-school programs attend Project Pumpkin each year.

In addition to providing a fall festival for local children, Project Pumpkin helps raise money to support the Wake Forest University Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School.