For hundreds of years, scientists have attempted to explain how the world came to be. In the early 1900s, a German scientist named Alfred Wegener came up with one of the most popular theories for the world being as it is today; the theory of Pangaea.

Pangaea is the idea that all the continents in the world used to be connected as one land mass and later broke apart to become separate land masses because of continental drift caused by the plates moving under the Earth’s crust. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Alfred’s theory of continental drift, and Gini Greenlaw and her Honors Earth Science students threw a party in his honor.

“We had the idea of having a hundredth anniversary party for the theory of plate tectonics and continental drifts,” Greenlaw’s student teacher, Mel Lawlor said. “Each student was able to plan how they wanted to represent it and they brought in cakes and other different kinds of treats.”

Many students baked cakes that depicted the giant land mass Alfred believed the world used to be. Other students brought soda or other drinks.

“We baked four different cakes and layered them on each other to make represent the different layers of the earth,” freshman Hannah Purcell said.

Purcell and her partner, freshman Margaret Morrell created the four-layered rainbow cake to represent the Earth and the different layers of crust.

“The four different cakes were different colors to describe each layer,” Morrell said.