Math nerds around the world celebrated a little known, but widely growing holiday called Pi Day. The St. Louis Structures Group celebrated our 3rd Annual Pi Day on Monday, March 15.
This year’s events included two awards: 1 for the “Best In Show Pie”; 1 for the most recited digits of Pi.
Each recipient recieved a $30 gift card to Pi Pizzera in St. Louis courtesy of the Structures Group!
And the winners were:
Lemonade Pie by Jason Wandersee (of the Justice Group) (recipe below)!
111 digits (including the 3) – Yong Yu (of the Strurctures Group)(Erich Friesen from the Healthcare Group was a very …
I feel like a proud parent! Our little (er -giant) Steven rode 5000 miles in 2009!
It’s quite a feat if you consider the reality of it. There are many of you that ride your bike, often to and from work (see Jodi’s post); but think about the actual number of miles you rack up! I’d be happy if I made it to 50 (Tour de France is ~2241 miles)! Also think about the conditions in which you ride your bike! Not even cold and mild rain keeps Steven Crang off the double wheeled transporter!
To celebrate his enormous amount of hard work he brought in a Gus’ Pretzel (a St. Louis’ …
Not too long ago, fellow HOK blogger Justin wrote about the perception of architects. I rather enjoyed that blog and wanted to do a sort of counter/comparison with the perception of engineers.
For starters, I went to a search engine and typed in “structural engineer” images. I was not surprised to see some rather silly images…but also a lot of construction site images…
The next thing I did was to ask around to see what the perception was of an engineer, or …
