It took 6,250 digits of PI and some 225 Monroe Middle School students to do it but the students were able to encircle their school this morning (March 15) with an unbroken chain, signifying just how long Pi -- 3.14 -- actually can stretch.  Here students celebrate hooking chains signifying 3.14 with the 6,248^th, 6,249^th and 6,250^th digits in the Pi sequence.  This exercise is done every several years at the school but this is the first time that the students have actually been able to go all around the school and reconnect the first digits with the last digits.  The unbroken line stretched four city blocks around the school, and the students did it with about 35 feet in the chain to spare.  While a number of teachers participated and helped keep the line of “chains” in as good a condition as possible, the event was headed by MMS math teachers Mrs. Katie Oberdorf and Mr. Kevin Pilgrim.  On Monday, which is considered Pi Day – March 14 or 3.14 the mathematic representation for Pi – the students used their math class time to put together the paper links earn bearing a digit of Pi.