Armchair reckoning topped scientific calculation in the contest to guess the weight of the giant pumpkin at the Haines School library.
Three students – Nathan Haas, 11, Wesley Verhamme, 10, and Luke Davis, 8 – correctly guessed that the pumpkin weighs 160 pounds. That was better than high school science teacher Mark Fontenot’s estimate of 141.8 pounds based on an empirical algorithm and information from a pumpkin website. It also beat a guess of 152…