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Happy (American) Pi Day, startorialists!!!

I’ve got some fun math jewelry to serve up today, so watch this space...

For starters, one of our favorite jewelry designers, Stern Design Works, is having a Pi Day/Snow day sale on their beautiful pi necklace! Available in brass or sterling silver, it’s 31.4% off today. ;) 

Reminisce over all our past Pi Day posts here. 

We’ve featured the gorgeous work of SciChic and the two amazing students before behind it before, but today I want to highlight one of absolute favorite pieces: their 3D printed space trajectory necklace.

Inspired by the Apollo program, this necklace recreates the trajectory required to reach the moon - translunar injection. The illustration above shows the orbital flight path of Apollo 11 which is beautifully recreated with this necklace. You can get your own version from their online shop in a variety of materials and colors. I’ll be showing off my black plastic version later this week...

Lastly, huge congrats to Erin and Emily from SciChic on their recent feature in The Daily Dot! Be sure to check out all their awesome creations here.

Just over a week ago, I met the coolest high schooler ever. Her name is Stella and not only does she know how to express her love of science (as you can see above), she designed a brilliant math mug for Cognitive Surplus. 

Stella attended the Los Angeles Math Circle at UCLA where she first learned about factorials. After wondering about zero factorial (0!), she figured out that it equaled one and thereby reasoned that “making no choice is a choice in itself!” She made a version of this mug for her dad for Father’s Day before collaborating with Cognitive Surplus to make the one shown here. You can read her story behind the design in her own words on their website.

I met Stella at the writing workshop as part of West Coast Science Communication Retreat (aka #SciCommCamp). The world is totally a better place with curious minds like hers in it - as clearly evidenced by her taste in tardigrades. ;)