Pi Day at VCS

This year, Sarina chose Assistant Principal Tabitha Brewer as her target, having pied math teacher Stephanie Tuttle last year. Estabrook again honored Michaud. (contributed photo)

Two seventh-grade girls won the annual Pi Day contest at Vassalboro Community School on March 14 – the same two who won as sixth-graders last year, in reverse order. The contest requires reciting from memory as many digits as possible of pi – an endless number defined as the “mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159.” Principal Ira Michaud said this year’s winner was Mariah Estabrook, who memorized 347 digits. In second place was Sarina LaCroix, with 328 digits. In the 2024 Pi Day contest, LaCroix placed first with a mere 167 digits, according to last year’s The Town Line report. Winners earn the right to throw a pie in the face of a school administrator or teacher.