January 24, 2011
“Show Green” Competition Winners!

On Saturday, Get City veterans Jasmine Boyd, Camryn Turner, Chantalice Hicks, Jayla Dunlap and Jessalyn Embry walked away with awards for their entries in the Energy Works Michigan “Show Green” Student Film Challenge.

January 31, 2013
2012 Young Innovators Competition Winners!

Great news! Cami and Quahn won awards in the state-wide 2012 Young Innovators Competition sponsored by the Prima Civitas Foundation. Participants in this competition answered the following question: If you could invent anything to improve your community, what would it be and why? Cami won first place in the 6-8th grade division with her creative initiative “Buttons …

May 6, 2015
2015 Showcase! Youth makers share their work!

On May 8th 15 youth makers at the Boys and Girls Club of Lansing show their work to the public! Engineering design prototypes focus on safety and green energy technologies! Come see: Ariele: Umbrella Stephan, Kelih, & DeShawn: Phantom Jacket Kalen: Police Car Jaila & Ahjale: House Alarm Jayla & Ella: Heated Jacket Mikayla: Eye …

December 5, 2015
5 minute tops

December 4th,2015 Today is the day! Everyone gets to present their stuff they have been making for the past couple of weeks. I can’t wait to see how creative they are, and there are judges here to check it out. The event today will be amazing ’cause there are a lot of newcomers to GET City and they …

February 1, 2015
A fashionable and sanitary option for when you are sick

Some of you already know (from the earlier post) I have been working on duct tape fashion line. I have hats, ties, and other accessories. My necktie thermometer is a much more sanitary option than the kind you put in your mouth or ear. The necktie will constantly monitor your temperature so that if you are in the …

October 29, 2014
A light up umbrella

Right now, P’s favorite idea for a new design is a light up umbrella. She picked this idea because it is a safety issue that came up in the surveys. She said that people need to see better when it is dark from night time or from the clouds. She also wants the umbrella to have a …

March 16, 2017
A social justice business approach to the Little Free Library

On Tuesday, Stephen and I worked on our 5 minute slide show that we are presenting on march 22nd 2017. In our presentation we talk about the little free stem library that we are making and what it is for and how we are planning on doing with it. For example, we used Google Maps …

November 9, 2016
A summer experience at Michigan Tech

Day gave me the idea of writing about when I went to Michigan Tech over the summer. Every year 2 GET City youth get picked to go. Ok, so when I went to Michigan Tech I was in the geological engineering group. So what the geological group did was to go look at rocks at …

February 10, 2016
About the Little Free Library

Today in Get City, Stephen and I worked on our lil free library a lil bit more. We put a back on it to make it not wobble as much as it did, and we are now working on making a door for it. So far it is looking good and we did a lot …

January 20, 2016
An update on the little free library!

Today in get city everyone was working on their projects and me and Angie did a power point for the little free library that we are gonna make for the kids/teens at the boys and girls club. We already know how we are gonna make it, and its gonna be amazing! Its gonna be an …

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