CANYON — The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) celebrated the mathematical marvel of Pi (π) on Saturday, March 14, on the East Lawn with some Pi-themed activities including — of course — a pie fight, according to Kami Drinnon, Administrative Assistant.
Players lined up, and some donned furnished plastic capes and head covers and goggles to keep themselves from the foamy pies, which were actually shaving cream.
The Pie teams had only 3 ½ minutes to throw their pies at each other over a roped off mid-point decorated with flags during the finale of the event.
At the much-awaited pie throwing, players grabbed small tins filled with foam and slung them at their opponents in flurry of foamy fun on a warm, sunny day.
Everyone was a winner, and there were no Pie-ties — just clean, pie slinging fun.
Jessica Wilson, who was working at the pop-up tent for PPHM, remarked that the weather was better than the windy weather last year. “We had a major windstorm, and we had to hold it inside … so imagine a pie fight inside in the Derrick Room. It created quite a mess,” according to Wilson.
The East Lawn was dotted with tables and games, such as a craft table, where youngsters could decorate their own Pi charts with flowers, buildings or whatever they envisioned.
One of the attendees, Addison Lowry, showed off her colorful Pi chart, decorated with different colors of flowers, in mathematical order, of course.
Several PPHM supporters worked a pie-making table, including Warren Stricker, who whipped up some mock pies with graham cracker crust, whipped cream and toppings of people’s choices and handed them out free of charge.
Students who manned a PPHM pop-up booth sold items including Pi Day t-shirts. One table had Jenga logs, and there were also other lawn games that kids or adults could enjoy playing.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant due to the fact that 3, 1 and 4 are the first three significant figures of pi, which was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of a science museum and San Francisco called the Exploratorium. It has spurred deals including freebies of pizza, burgers and “pies” of all types.
The irrational number, meaning that it goes on forever and has been calculated to over a trillion digits, according to NASA, is also known as 3.14.
It is used in equations and math problems to find measurements involving circles, spheres and cylinders, according to a USA TODAY article by Julie Gomez, which was published March 13.
This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Pies fly as PPHM celebrates Pi Day on WT campus
Reporting by Nell Williams, Amarillo Globe-News / Amarillo Globe-News
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