UF’s College of Engineering is celebrating Pi Day by encouraging engineering students to stay around to finish their major.
The Stay With It campaign encourages students to stick with engineering. It begins today with a national event at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Pi Day at UF starts at 2:30 p.m. in the Reitz Union Auditorium. It will include speeches by UF President Bernie Machen and Provost Joe Glover before the national event, which will stream on Facebook at 3 p.m.
Attendees can get free raffle tickets for prizes that include an ASUS Zenbook Ultrabook computer, Apple TV and a TI-89 calculator, said Michael Andrews, a 22-year-old aerospace and mechanical engineering senior and the event leader.
At the national event, a panel of engineering graduates who work for companies like NASA, Facebook and Intel will discuss the challenges they faced while getting their degrees.
Andrews said these companies hope to double engineering internships and graduate 10,000 more engineering students in the next few years.
Contact Samantha Shavell at sshavell@alligator.org.
