Math gives an excuse for fun

You cannot celebrate Pi Day without pie, and Larry Shaw, the day’s creator, certainly did not. In 1988, he hosted the first official celebration of Pi Day at his workplace: Exploratorium, a science and art museum in San Francisco. The staff and the visitors marched around in circles and then ate fruit pies.

The Exploratorium annually celebrates Pi Day. You can reserve tickets here:  https://transact.exploratorium.edu/ticketing/ticketing.aspx.

In 2009, the US House of Representatives made Pi Day an official holiday after festivities took off across the nation. They marked it on the calendars for 3/14, the first three digits of π. However, the holiday is not only about eating pies and then eating more pies. It is about getting kids nationwide more interested in STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

According to UNIVERSE TODAY, “You might not use it yourself every day, but Pi is used in most calculations for building and construction, quantum physics, communications, music theory, medical procedures, air travel, and space flight, to name a few.” (https://bit.ly/34SSp1k)