Rounded Pi Day was this Monday, 3/14/2016. It was Rounded Pi, because Pi is 3.14159......so Monday was 3.14.16--Rounded Pi--irrational, I know (wink, wink). We needed to celebrate this irrational number with a party and LOTS OF PIE!
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| Pi Participants and Prizes Table |
Pi Participants needed to register at this table to get their tickets to enter for Pi prizes and pick up Pi Pins. Guests learned they would be challenged with interactive games, poetry, calculations, and strategy to complete tasks at each station and enter to win fabulous p(r)i(zes). With guest collaborators from the Twin Tiers Section of the Society of Women Engineers (S.W.E.), and the Corning Museum of Glass, Pi Day was Packed with activity.
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| Educators from the Corning Museum of Glass with Pi Dividers |
The educators from the Corning Museum of Glass brought a glass challenge, the Pi Divider. Glass makers use this tool when making vessels with canes to calculate the amount of canes they need to make a vessel of a particular size. In place of glass canes, colorful straws were used to demonstrate the idea.
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| Mousetrap Race Cars with S.W.E. |
The Society of Women Engineers devised Mousetrap Race Cars with a little help from books they borrowed from our library sytsem, STLS. Challengers took to the "streets" (A.K.A.- the Dewey Decimal Math aisle--510) to race these hot rods. S.W.E. was also gracious to provide S.W.E. s.w.a.g. (stuff we all get) to Pi participants.
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| Teen Tech Raspberry Pi micro-controller games |
An assortment of Raspberry Pi micro-controllers were placed in the SSC Library conference room for all to sample. Raspberry Pie sounds delicious, but these are not edible Pies! These mini controllers are power houses of teaching and learning opportunity.
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| Edible Pies |
For those seeking edible pies, we had a few treats to savor, but there was a major requirement. You must complete a Pilish Poem or Pi-Ku and perform it for me before getting to polish off Pies. Just entering that community room caused taste buds to salivate and this mission was easy to complete.
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| Pilish Poetry and Pi-Ku |
The activity I devised was Pilish Poetry or Pi-Ku. Pilish writing matches the number of letters per word to the corresponding number in Pi. The shortest Pilish Poem could have a three letter word, followed by a one letter word, then by a four letter word. Pi Ku writing matches the number of syllables in a line with the corresponding number in Pi. We had some reluctant performers, but once they understood the rules: No pie without a Performance, I had a ton of readers stating stanzas under the Pi Pie.
There was also a Pie in the Face game, which is very much a scary game of chance...watch out or you may get covered in whipped cream!
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| Pie in the Face completed our Pi-venture |
With this much fun, we will revisit Pi Day in 2017. Lucky we initiated this program on Rounded Pi Day.
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| Picture Perfect Pi Day |
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