To quilty engineers, scientists, Pi lovers everywhere,
Happy Pi Day!
I am an engineer and got my degree at Carnegie Mellon University (known to be a super nerdy engineering school). We did not have many of your typical college parties, but holidays like Pi day were always huge celebrations.
Students spent most of the night writing out the thousands of digits of pi on the sidewalks all through the campus. I always try to celebrate pi day now with a celebration including some pie. For my kids, I will be sending them to school with cookies having pi symbols on them for their classes.
A number of years ago, I made a pi quilt for my engineer husband containing 49 paper pieced digits of Pi and I thought that I would post it again for the occasion.
Go have a piece of pie today to celebrate Pi Day :)
Awesome happy Pi day to youxx
ReplyDeleteMy son is a 2010 CMU graduate. His degree was in mechanical engineering, and his love was Buggy. I fell in love with Pittsburgh during his stay there. He's in Seattle now, working in the aviation engineering field. And he loves Pi day! Next year, we're doing a guild program on Quilt Math, and I'm hoping to make your Pi quilt for it, and then gifting it to him. Enjoy your Pi!
ReplyDeleteMy son is also a CMU grad, 2004 and I am a HS math teacher. We celebrated pi day in HS and am wondering if my son chalked digits of pi at CMU. When did you graduate?
ReplyDeleteI graduated in 2000 :)
DeleteI saw the title of your post before who it was and thought that has to be Cheryl (or Yvonne), LOL! Great commemorative quilt!
ReplyDeleteI never thought PI day would be so big!! Thanks for sharing this quilt again...I love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your love of Pi by indoctrinating the children with the symbol. Kids need to feel science is safe and approachable (and how much more approachable can it be than eating!) I used to hold science themed birthday parties for my kids (who are now late 20's to early 30's). One day not very long ago, I met one of these young people and he told me that my parties helped him to love science (and he's now a professional engineer). Thanks for the PI post.
ReplyDeleteYay for Pi Day! We had a Pi Day Pie party scheduled for today but had to move it to Friday because we have a snow day today! I love your Pi quilt and it makes me want to make another periodic table quilt. :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you celebrate Pi day! I will have to consider the best way to celebrate, too. Pie sounds delicious, but I indulged a bit too much at QuiltCon. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Pi Day to you too. I love to see quilters who not only know what pi is, but who celebrate it as well. I am retired now, but I used to have Pi parties in my HS math classes every year. And not just eating pies - they needed to be cut in some pi-related way too ;) Hope everyone has a great day today, eating said pi and running around in circles to your hearts' content!
ReplyDeleteA key lime pie just came out of the oven, now to cool! Happy Pi Day!
ReplyDeleteI love Pi Day too! Of course we also like May 4th as well...we are super nerdy at my house :) I love your Pi day quilt! I just noticed it's free on Craftsy...I just might have to make this for my nephew who is graduating in May with a math degree :)
ReplyDeleteFabulous.Hope it has been a great day!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Pi day!
ReplyDeleteHope you had a happy Pi Day. Drama Teen made her physicist dad a Key Lime pie to celebrate. Love your guy's Pi quilt.
ReplyDeleteWe have an "iP " day down here as the date is 14/3!!!( that is the way that NZ does the days/months/years) Love that quilt.
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