On Pi Day, we don’t just celebrate math— we celebrate a delicious excuse to eat endless slices of pie. Get ready for a day filled with numbers, fun, and more dessert than you can count!”
Pi Day is celebrated by many especially by eating a slice of pie. Pi has a long history and a long list of numbers that never ends. Pi Day was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw and is traditionally celebrated by eating a slice of pie as well as reciting as many numbers of Pi. Current world record holder Suresh Kumar Sharma recited 70,030 digits of Pi in seventeen hours and fourteen minutes which is about one digit per second.
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th. The significance behind this exact date is because the three most significant figures of Pi are 3, 1, and 4. But in March of 2015 it was pronounced “Pi Month” due to it being 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 which represented the first ten digits of pi.
Many of us know that Pi day is seen as eating, reciting and throwing Pi, but how does Woodland Celebrate it?
Woodland Math Honor Society hosts four main competitions to find the overall winner: reciting as many digits of PI as possible, drawing a circle, hula hooping, and pie eating. The winner gets a five dollar gift card to get a drink or a treat from Dunkin Donuts.
As many students participate even the teachers can be caught hula hooping and even participating in Pi day events.
The honorary Pi day contest always has winners and losers especially during the pie eating contest. Thomas Lewis, Pi day enthusiast, was the overall winner of the second lunch’s pie eating contest.
“I didn’t even taste it; I just swallowed it as fast as possible.”
That is pretty impressive for someone without any practice, especially racing alongside four of his friends to see who can eat the fastest.
Marcus Estes also participated in the second lunch wave pie eating contest and couldn’t get further than the crust.
“Personally I’m a great loser. I’m proud of my boy TJ; I think personally I can accept a loss.”
This exemplifies the sportsmanship the Woodland community has especially over silly things including pie eating. This also shows the intensity rising as Woodland students take on pie eating, especially when Dunkin gift cards are involved.
Gigi Orchechowski, participated in the hula hooping contest even with her foot in a boot which led to her winning a gift card.
“The hardest part was keeping balance between my boot and the rest of my body.”
This emphasizes that anyone can participate in these challenges to win gift cards no matter if you have an injury or believe that you can’t do it yourself.
As junior Kayleigh Fitzgerald states “it’s a whole workout and can be super hard for long periods of time especially when coming to third lunch to a competitor with a four minute record from earlier.”
