Hey guys I Know it’s been quite sometime since I’ve made a blog for get city. I’ve just been really busy with work and not being able to attend get city the past year. I plan on being able to come back soon when I have time too cause I really miss it. I know …
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Visiting MSU
March 4, 2020 Today we had a chance to visit Dr. Scott’s engineering lab where we investigated thermal and pressure sensors. We’re going to use the thermal sensor on our climate change studies back at GET City!
Urban Heat Islands
March 2, 2020 Today we built different biomes and measured their temperature on a glacier, in a park setting and in a built up environment to learn more about how the local environment “heats up” or not in the sun. We used our bright light at the sun, and then measured the temperature of our …
Arcade Day Manikin Challenge
Today was GET City’s ‘POWER TOOL ARCADE’ presentation day! Since the end of October, the kids in GET City have been building arcade games. This way we got to learn how to use different power tools at the same time we learned some science, like forces and motion. The power tool arcade presentation was for the GET …
Forces and motion
Today we learned about forces and motion to help us with our arcade games. Our mentor used some of the launchers that Stephan, Day and Angie made as examples to show different ideas on how to launch the balls and stuff. She picked Stephen’s which I think is great because I thought it was the …
The Marshmallow Challenge!
Today everyone got into three groups and did the marshmallow challenge. To do this challenge all three groups had to use spaghetti noodles and marshmallows and build a tower that supported the marshmallow. One of the groups had the idea of taping theirs down on the floor so they could make their tower. I never thought …
Space making at our making space
Today was a big cleaning and organization day. Day and some of the GET City members worked on cleaning out the office in our making space so that it can be used for a digital designing room. I am really excited about this room because we never before had a space to do our digital design work. We …
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 …
Sharing our ideas with the world!
Today in GET Ciity Stephen and I made videos about our new maker space and my blog posts. We made a video about our little free library and what we are doing with it. We wanted to share our ideas with the DML meeting where our mentors, Angie and Day were going to present our …
Electric Art!
Today in Get City, Stephen and I showed everyone how to make a closed circuit with a light and a battery for their electric art projects. At first we forgot how to make the circuit because it has been a while since we did this. But after trying a few different ways, we finally remembered how …
