Have you ever thought about how much sugar is in a bottle of Coke or fruit juice? Compared to the recommended daily amount of sugar, we investigated how much sugar was in those drinks. We learned how to read the nutrition label of drinks and then determined the amount of sugar in them. To visualize …
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Playing with Data!
Have you ever played with data like a scientist? Using data that we collected from grocery stores, we learned how to put the datasets into Google Spreadsheets, merge them together, and analyze them. We found something fascinating in the data! We also thought about how we could improve our data collection process, based on the …
Valentine’s Day with a Smoothie Bike
Guess what we gave our friends as gifts for Valentine’s Day? Candy? Chocolate? No! None of those! We gave them healthy smoothies, made using a bike blender! Do you know what the bike blender is? When you pedal the bike attached to the blender, you generate power needed to make delicious smoothies. No plugs and …
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 …
Food Taste Test!
GET City had a food taste test to understand how processed foods are different from non-processed foods. We tasted different kinds of foods, such as fruit snacks versus fresh fruits, and bakery wheat bread versus Wonder bread. Then we tried to answer some questions: Which food do you prefer? Which food do you think is …
Welcome back, GET City!
The spring session has kicked off with our fabulous GET Citizens! This Spring we’ll address issues of food and the environment in our community. As a starting point, we interviewed our peers about food: what they usually eat for breakfast, where their family buys groceries, and how they think food connects to the environment. We …
Celebration for winners of the “Energy Saves” video contest!
On December 18, we had time to celebrate our winners in the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s “Energy Saves” video contest at the Boys and Girls Club of Lansing. The Board of Water and Light awarded GET City members a $2,000 check for one first-place entry and two second-place entries. “We judged videos based …
Winners of the BWL’s Energy Saves Video Contest!
[GET City News, 1st place] Great news! Some of our GET City members are the winners of the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s 2012 Energy Saves Video Contest! GET City members Jalah, Angel, and Autumn won the first prize in the 7th-9th grade category (with their video “BWL GET City news”). Camryn, Chontalice, and LeD’Jiin …
