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Celebrating Pi Day
March 14, Pi Day, was celebrated with scavenger hunts, a cardboard boat race, and pies in the dining hall.
It was surely destiny that the winning cardboard boat built by a team from the Engineering and Design class and launched in the GPS pool was named Blueberry Pi. After all, National Pi Day was being celebrated in several areas of the campus on Tuesday, March 14.
The day to recognize the irrational mathematical constant pi (3.14159…) involved pi-related activities during classes and throughout the day. A fun math holiday, National Pi Day was recognized by the US House of Representatives in 2009.
The math faculty at GPS all wore matching themed t-shirts, and the Middle School math classes joined together during the different class periods in 6th through 8th grades for a campus-wide scavenger hunt, discovering formulas and uses for pi, calculating diameters and/or circumferences of circular objects on campus, and creating one-minute videos to explain pi, among other tasks. Pi, the circumference over diameter, is a number that is infinite and that is a constant in every circle.
Middle School art classes made signs (circular, of course) to promote the celebration, and the GPS Dining Hall celebrated with two choices of pies, key lime and chocolate.
The other engineered boats that didn’t fare so well in the water were named Just Fondue It, Yeah Buoy, and Party Barge. Members of the winning boat were Sophia Han, Lindsey Campbell, and Ruchi Patel. The crowd of students and faculty who gathered in the gallery to watch the competition received prizes of, what else, Moon Pies!! 
