The results of the 2026 Pi Representation competition are in! (View the original competition page, here).
Congratulations everyone who took part – there are so many great entries that are going unmentioned on the website.
The entries were judged on a variety of categories; originality and clarity of the idea, technical skill and effort required for the work, and mathematical understanding/accuracy. Some of the top entires didn’t require huge amounts of technical skill or effort, but were wonderfully unique ideas instead. Meanwhile some entries were less original but required a high degree of technical skill or effort. And some were a mix of the two!
It was very difficult to choose the top entries in each category. It’s difficult to compare entries using such a variety of different mediums, and there was not much to separate a lot of entries.
But here are the final results, as promised!
Entries from individuals or pairs of students, Year 8 and under
Top three prize-winning entries
First Place: Eleanor Borrow of Newstead Wood School
Second place: Jack Cartwright of Dulwich Prep & Senior
Third place: Minnie MacPherson and Snow Shechter of The Richmond upon Thames School
Runners-up
These are listed alphabetically by first name.
Amelia Blake of The Broxbourne School
Brooke Ayris of Spalding High School
Hannah Bryant of New Hall School
Lillie-Evelyn Smith of Spalding High School
The code Lillie-Evelyn wrote is here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1290438622
But a screen recording of what the code does is below.
Olivia of Park Lane International School, Prague
Riha Sevani of Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls
Sam Wells of Co-op Academy Priesthorpe
Sam has written a song about the first 400 digits of Pi and then translated it into Morse Code. The picture below shows the first line. For the full text click HERE.
Entries from individuals or pairs of students, Year 9 and above
Top three prize-winning entries
First Place: James Davies of Comberton Village College
See the full entry at this link, and some screen shots from it below.
https://pi-cumulative-graph.pages.dev
Second Place: Alan Alex of The Broxbourne School
See an excerpt of Alan’s work below. Or read Alan’s full piece HERE.
Third Place: Anya Kemp of The College of Richard Collyer
Runners-up
These are listed alphabetically by first name.
Alexander Hoggarth of The Broxbourne School
Emma Pan of Kendrick School
Emma’s art was drawn digitally on Procreate, and is a skyline of the first 120 digits of pi. The video below show the timelapse of the drawing.
Harneev Wahiwala and Claude Ham of Spalding High School
Harneev and Claude designed the layout and put the students into position during registration period.
Imaan Rehman of Walthamstow School for Girls
Nathaniel Ohue of Kents Hill Park School
Tyree Donnachie of Rochdale Sixth Form College
Find the video of this entry here: https://think-maths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Rochdale-Sixth-Form-College-Tyree-Donnachie-1-Nicola-Smith.gif
Zakariya Robinson of Rochdale Sixth Form College
Entries from larger groups
Zoe has chosen a few of her favourite larger group efforts to showcase on the website.
Longley Park Sixth Form in Sheffield
‘We did a collective pi day skyline, with any of our students able to add a building to a student-painted sunset, done in our plaza at lunchtime on pi day.’
Surrey Maths School
These are rubber bath ducks with digits of pi written on them. Students had to find the ducks hidden all around the school and then arrange them in order (as shown here).
