PI Day ... Steve
p.s. In the spirit of "Anything is Possible" as made popular by Kevin
Garnett from the Boston Celtics, one of my first grade students at The
Children's Storefront in Harlem yesterday totally shocked me by reciting
the first 121 digits of PI as part of my annual PI DAY contest.
You can see her remarkable accomplishment (having studied for the last two
weeks) by going to the YouTube video at http://tinyurl.com/PIDAY129
Please consider three favors:
1) watch the 2 minute video of this 6 year old reciting 121 places of PI
and it will make you feel happy on a horribly rainy, windy day (at least
in NYC) ... hopefully, it will make you say "anything is possible" ... in
this video, you can see her pause and think several times as she digs into
her head for the next 20 or 30 digits
2) send this email or a modified one to at least 10 of your own friends or
family members or colleagues
3) donate 1 dollar ("that's just 100 pennies") by going to
http://www.billionpennyproject.org
If I can get this email circulated to 1 million people who do these three
favors, I will be able to raise 100 million pennies by the time this
horrible rain stops. The Children's Storefront is a tuition-free
independent school and we need to constantly raise money to help students
like this 6 year old get a good education and become successful adults.
And yes, this student will win 1 of the 11 pies that I am baking tomorrow
on PI Day, 3/14 but she doesn't know it yet so please don't tell her ;-)
Steve Bergen (sbergen@cstorefront.org)
CIO and Computer Teacher, The Children's Storefront
70 East 129th Street, New York, NY 10035
An Independent School in Harlem
Web site: http://www.thechildrensstorefront.org
also co-director, The "Summercore" Teaching Company
http://www.summercore.com
Summercore 2010 includes June 14-18 (VA) July 12-16 (NYC) July 26-30 (FL)
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