SPLAT! The whipped cream hit three AHS educators’ faces. On Nov. 22, 2023, Atlantic High School concluded its fundraiser for the Atlantic Food Pantry. The fundraiser took place over the course of a week and a half and raised 150 dollars and 26 cents.
Three educators were pied, one of whom was an organizer of the event, Mr. Bryce Smith. Smith got pied by one of his seminar students. He decided to play a trick with this student, since it was his second time getting ‘pied’ for an event, and pulled out an “uno reverse card.” He then attempted to push the pie pan full of whipped cream into the student’s face, though it ultimately ended up smushing into Smith’s beard. His seminar got second place in the overall competition, raising “almost 50 bucks,” according to Smith.
The “coin war” according to Mrs. Anna Pauley was organized by the Climate Culture Student committee. In this event, each seminar had a jar that students (and faculty) could put money into. Each coin was attributed to a number of points. This meant pennies were one point, nickels were five, and every dollar put in would subtract points. This gave other seminars a chance to “sabotage” seminars that were leading the coin war, according to Pauley. Closer to the end, many students decided to sabotage other classes by placing bills in opposing teachers’ jars.
Students got the opportunity to “pie” these teachers by spraying whipped cream into a pie dish and then plunging it into the face of the selected teacher. Junior Tristan Hayes pied Ms. Mallory Kirchhoff in the face. Hayes said, “I wanted to pie someone in the face because I thought it’d be fun and I enjoy making people laugh.” Although he’s “never pied anyone in the face before,” he enjoyed pieing Kirchhoff because “we had to settle some beef,” Hayes said. Sophomore Calianda Thompson also pied an educator in the face. “It was a very fun experience,” she said.
Overall, the students and faculty of AHS enjoyed witnessing and participating in the coin war, and its outcome for both the Atlantic Food Pantry and the Atlantic High School Community.
