The contest helped raise $396 in funds.
Washington Township High School junior Bobby Bowdren bested 37 other contestants by downing two-and-a-half, four-ounce cherry pies in 60 seconds in a pie-eating contest hosted at WTHS on Wednesday, March 14 — also known as Pi Day. Amidst a cafeteria full of spectators cheering them on, contestants — who paid a five dollar entry fee, used only their faces, and kept their hands behind their backs to eat the desserts. Bowdren’s efforts earned him a $15 Wawa gift card.
The contest was part of the math department’s annual celebration of Pi Day. Pi — the mathematical symbol designating the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — is equivalent 3.141592653+, and therefore celebrated on March 14.
Proceeds from the contest, staged by the school’s Mathematics Honor Society Mu Alpha Theta, benefited the Tony Bucca Memorial Scholarship, which honors the memory of the former WTHS math teacher. The contest yielded $396. An additional $534 was raised for the scholarship on Pi day through a staff dress-down day.
