A while back one of our board members recognized that we needed to focus some efforts on defining the type of culture we wanted at Envysion. Our CEO tasked me with leading the efforts and gave as one of my first tasks the formation of a cultural committee that would be responsible for defining and instilling this culture within the organization. Thus the Envysion Culture Club was born.

We’ve done some fun things over the last few months and I’m remiss in not posting about them. But that will change and as a step in the direction of posting more frequently about the Cutlure Club’s activities I wanted to post about our recent Envysion pumpkin carving contest.

The Culture Club wanted to do something fun that involved the families of our employees and we settled on a pumpkin carving contest where employees would bring their kids and help them carve some really cool pumpkins. We’d give prizes for the best pumpkins and have cookies and punch for the kids.

We had a terrific turn out and some really fantastic pumpkins. So many, in fact, that we had to invent 2 categories for prizes. I’ll be posting a photo album containing all the photos we took but for now I wanted to show the winner of the traditional carved pumpkin Mr. Will McDonald son of Joey McDonald our senior systems engineer. Will’s pumpkin was scary and traditional.

Will McDonald

Thanks to Bridget Hamilton – our office manager and Culture Club member – who helped us get all of the carving supplies we had some pumpkin adornments of the Mr. Potato Head ilk. As a result of the great designs resulting from these adornments we had to create an additional category and awarded the prize to Chase Jensen son of Chris Jensen one of our sales folks.

Chase Jensen

As you can see there were a lot of really great designs.

Just a few of the contestants

And folks had a great time gutting and carving the pumpkins.

Gutting and carving

Even our CEO Matt Steinfort got into the act with his kids.

Matt Steinfort and kids

Perhaps the best scary face of the afternoon though came from our VP of Operations Bill Steinfort.

scarygrandpabill

All in all it was a grand time and all the kids really enjoyed themselves – even us grown up ones.