Celebrate Pi Day, 3/14, early during second half of lunch today where three lucky teachers will be pied in the face! OCSA’s Math Club put together a fundraiser where teachers have volunteered to get pied and students can vote for the teacher they want to see covered in whipped cream.

All of the teachers who volunteered include: Mr. Walsh, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Crane, Ms. Smith, Ms. Fitzgerald, Mr. Barra, Mr. Capley, Mrs. Brown, Mr. Perez, Ms. Swann, and Mr. Naiomy.

Voting will open one last time today during first half of lunch, only the top five teachers can receive votes. One dollar equals 100 votes. After the final votes are tallied, the top three teachers will be pied! The top five are: Mr. Perez, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Barra, and Mr. Crane.

The idea of pieing teachers came from Math Club’s sponsor, Mrs. Brown, “We looked up ideas online for good fundraisers and I found a math, Pi Day themed fundraiser for pieing your teacher in the face. And I know OCSA has actually done this before in the past.” Once upon a time when Mr. Connors was the Assistant Principal, he became the first to get a pie to the face in OCSA history.

Pi Day was founded by physicist Larry Shaw in 1988. He worked for more than 15 years at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology that encourages visitors to be hands-on. The first few celebrations of Pi Day were small gatherings between workers and visitors of the museum. They ate pie and began a circular march at 1:59 p.m., celebrating six digits of the infinite number, 3.14159.

The celebrations grew over the years until the U.S. House of Representatives designated March 14 as Pi Day. Though Larry Shaw passed away in 2017, thousands around the world continue his tradition with buffets and songs that are all about pi. OCSA joins the fun with Math Club’s pie face event!