Today i went to the library in East Lansing with Day and checked out / bought books for GET City from their new makerspace book area. I also checked out their new makerspace, and I used the studio room in there to do a voice over for Stephen and my video we’re going to make …
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Congratulations GET City!
GET City youth presented their socially just businesses today at the LEAP event in Lansing for area entrepreneurs. All five teams represented extraordinarily well. Their work is what makes a difference in this world. As one of the youth, Z stated, “It’s not about making money. It’s about doing what is right. Doing what is …
Video Reflections on our Making Research
Today everyone is making videos about why they picked their ideas, and how they are going to be doing their projects. Also before we all got started with everything we had a conversation about what kind of field trips we should do and how we can convince others that these trips are important. One of …
Tinkered: A new tool for us
Today in GET City we learned how to use Tinkercad. Tinkercad is a free website and 3-D sketching tool that everyone is going to use to imagine their designs. Also Tinkercad is like Sketchup (that we used before) but its free! So far everyone has been doing really good a using it. It can be …
It’s going to be an amazing year!
We just finished our electric art projects and workshop for the whole club. Now we are starting to learn more things about power tools and building games. We will have an arcade for GET City when we are done. And we will also teach everyone at the Club how to make these things, too. Today …
Think Tank @ Impression 5
Some of us from GET City are helping out at Impression 5 Science Museum as part of the “YAC” — that stands for Youth Action Council. We go to the museum to give our ideas, and help to design the space and the activity. Today we went to talk about our ideas for the signs …
Getting Ready for Lights On!
We have spent the last 3 weeks planning and getting ready for Lights On! We are going to teach all of the kids at the Club how to do Electric Art. That will be tricky because we will have to teach them a lot of science like how to make a circuit, and different types …
Solving YOUR community problems
Today in GET City, everyone is going around the Boys and Girls Club asking people to take a survey and they also did the survey as well. The survey was about how GET City might help people solve problems in their community, using our science expertise. We asked about what kinds of problems people are …
I Like When My Energy Is Green
P & J remix Drake green style…. as we discuss solving community problems with green energy. I like when my energy is green You use to think there was nothing wrong Late night leaving all the lights on Wasting energy, all day long See I like when my energy is green It can only mean …
Community Ethnography
Today we are going around the community and asking people questions about things that are going around their community and how they feel about it. In our interviews we are telling people about GET City — who we are and what we do. We solve problems using green energy and engineering design. One of the …
