Celebrate Pi Day a few days early at Ingram Planetarium on March 12 from 11:30 to 3:00. Enjoy half-price Sky Theater shows all day long and free hands-on math experiments in the Paul Dennis Science Hall. Have fun with numbers and create your own math mementos to take home with you.
Scratching your head trying to remember what the heck Pi is? Here’s a quick refresher: A mathematical constant that is often shortened to 3.14, Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is always the same number, no matter which circle you use. Pi is an infinite decimal, meaning that there is no limit to the numbers that appear to the right of the decimal point. And, even more amazing, the numbers to the right of the decimal point never repeat in a pattern. To see one million digits of Pi, go to http://www.piday.org/million.
Half-price Pi Day Sky Theater Shows:
12:00 Accidental Astronauts – NEW!
1:00 Seven Wonders
2:00 Dynamic Earth
3:00 Astronaut
All feature movies are accompanied by a live star show!
Ingram Planetarium is located at 7625 High Market Street in Sunset Beach, NC. Admission is free for members. Non-member half-price admission on Pi Day (including NC sales tax) is $4.50 for adults, $4 for seniors (62+), $3.50 for children (3-12), and free for age 2 and under. For more information, call 910-575-0033 or visit www.MuseumPlanetarium.org.