Saturday is a unique day for math fanatics.

March 14, 2015, (3/14/15) matches perfectly with the mathematical constant pi (3.1415), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and Lehighton Area School District is marking the occasion with an academic festival in its high school cafeteria.Doors open at 8:30 a.m. with an opening ceremony set for 9:26 a.m. Community members are invited to attend the free event."We started talking at the elementary level about how it would be cool to celebrate something with a math focus since we always are focusing on reading (Dr. Seuss' birthday, etc.)," said Suzanne Cordes, Franklin Elementary School reading specialist. "At the same time, our elementary librarian, Angela Harris, came to me with the idea of having a reading fair. We again put our heads together and combined ideas and decided to have math activities and book projects contained in pizza pi(e) boxes. Pizza Hut graciously donated the boxes."East Penn and Franklin elementary students are asked to bring their pizza box book reports to the cafeteria by 9:15 a.m.Two administrators will be taking one for the team. Winners in each book report category will get the chance to pi(e) East Penn and Franklin principal Suzanne Howland and Tim Tkach, Lehighton coordinator of curriculum, instruction and grant writing.Nine local pizzerias will compete for Lehighton's "Best Pi(e)." They are Pizza Hut, Verona Pizza House, Two Kings Pizza, Mario's Pizza, Pizza Como, Restaurant Sapore, Johnny's Restaurant II, Alfie's Pizzeria Restaurant and Lorenzo's Pizza. Students in attendance will randomly be selected to judge, beginning at 10:30 a.m.There will also be fun and interactive academic stations set up around the cafeteria."For example, one of the stations is a bracelet making station where different colored beads represent the different numbers in pi. Students will have to put the beads on in the right order to represent the number pi," said Harris.While the middle school has done Pi Day activities in the past, this will be the first event involving elementary students."We hope the students realize that reading and math do not have to just be skill and drill and testing, they can be fun," Cordes said. "Also, we hope the students see that their teachers and administrators will do anything to make learning more enjoyable for them, even get pied. We are also excited to have the local pizzerias be involved and see the great students we have."