Thirteenth annual Pi Games breaks fundraising records

April 21, 2008 —

On Saturday afternoon, 10 teams of 10 students competed in the 13th annual Pi Games. The event was put on by Sigma Pi and (sponsors) and this year broke all of their previous fund raising records by an estimated $500, coming to a total of over $2,000. The money is going to the Salvation Army's Children summer camps, so that the kids are kept off of the streets and spending their summer months constructively.

The teams that competed were, The Biology Club, The Dodgeball Club, Team Tuna, Boner in Sweatpants, Detroit's Finest (a chapter of Sigma Pi that came to compete from the University of Detroit), Unforgivable, Pigs May Fly, TBA, Team Beergoggles, and Team Tomorrow. The teams competed in events such as volleyball and basketball, an underwear trot, pie eating contest, Gatorade pong, an obstacle course, a brain scrambler, and so on. The entire competition was won by Team Beergoggles after they placed first in the Tug of War contest, and they and the rest of the top four teams received prize packages from the event's sponsors.

Sophomore Sigma Pi Secretary Daniel Wingblad organized the Games this year with the help of SVSU Sigma Pi alumni. Wingblad was excited about the money raised and for the brain scrambler, because the questions were "so random!" Wingblad went on to say that Pi Games are "a good time for all SVSU students to come out on a Saturday and have fun, meet people they've never met, and it's all for a good cause."