Why Celebrate Engineer's Week with Cherry Pie?

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Engineer’s Week in the U.S. occurs from February 18-24, 2024, coinciding with George Washington's birthday on February 22. The celebration includes traditions such as eating cherry pie, which is linked to a popular legend about Washington's childhood honesty. This week honors the contributions of engineers and often involves projects to appreciate their work. The discussion also touches on the humorous notion of creating a satirical song about Engineer's Week. Overall, the conversation highlights personal traditions and the significance of recognizing engineering achievements.
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It is Engineer's Week in the U.S. from February 18-24, 2024.

I'm a little weird, and my family always celebrated it (presumably because my dad was a civil engineer).

One thing we did was eat cherry pie, because the event presumes President George Washington, a surveyor, soldier and politician, as sort of the founding father of engineers and popular legend recalls him cutting down a cherry tree as a child and then admitting to it to his father because he was honest.

The date is also set based upon George Washington's birthday (Feb. 22 in the Georgian calendar in effect from around the time he turned twenty-year old, Feb. 11 under the Julian calendar in effect when he was born), even though George Washington is not known to have ever celebrated his own birthday.

We also admired the things that engineers did and sometimes did projects.

What are you doing for Engineer's Week?
 
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What are you doing for Engineer's Week?
Keeping up with things here on Physics Forums. :smile:
 
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