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Celebrating Pi Day, students at Punta Gorda Middle School first created Pi plates, with close to 1,000 now hanging on the hallway walls, starting on the third floor with the number 3, then proceeding along the hallways representing the infinity of the number Pi. Eighth-graders Evan Flores and Randi Hemstreet, members of the PGMS Math Counts Team, helped put up the paper Pi plates before heading out to the track for the fourth annual Pi Day Fitness Walk/Run, which all students participated in throughout the day Friday.

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Kneeling, Jonathan McCabe, Mackenzie Trost and William Royal; and, standing, Jessica Moore, Megan Stolte and Matthew Wyers, stop along the track to show off how many laps they had completed.

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Between the two of them, using three arms of temporary tattoos, eighth-graders, Ryan Dutton and Matthew Newberry could spell out the start of the Pi formula.

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Math teachers Wendy Toms and Karen Parnell also had the Pi tattoos done on their arms.

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Eighth-graders, Melanie Moenning and Kaitlyn Forsberg with a smiley face made from the beads being given out for each lap walked in the fourth annual Pi Day Fitness Walk/Run held Friday.

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Math Counts Team members Rebecca Parnell, Christine Bodine, Jack Fining and Dalton Larson, all eighth-graders, help run the Pi Day Fitness Walk/Run.

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A group of students gather at the table to pick up their lap beads, where the name “NICK” had been spelled out.

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Kayla Albers, Fay Jsovolos and Grace Lane show off their Pi necklaces with beads denoting the four laps they had completed.

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Gabi Pajaro and Katelyn Brockmann stop for the lap beads.