Starting this month, the youth at Get City are beginning the program with an activity to understand ‘Carbon dioxide’. This involves hands-on activities such as measuring CO? levels with a device, making a poster about urban CO? emissions and tree canopy, and building their own CO? models to visualize the negative effects of CO? on …
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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 …
In-land Flooding in Michigan
Feb 24, 2020 Today we build models of our local neighborhoods and modeled flooding! We also DIY our own clay for this project, too! We learned that climate change is going to increase the number of floods in Michigan. Since 1950 the average annual rain and snow in Michigan has increased by 5 to 10 …
Have you experienced Climate Injustice?
Feb 19, 2020 We want to know what your experiences with Climate (In)Justice is? If you have a minute, can you tell us your story? We’re going to be sharing our stories with you, too. A: I have asmtha, and on the days in the summer when it is really hot, I need to stay …
Climate Action in Our Community!
Feb 12, 2020 We got to talk to Mr. C today who told us all about his activist work on environmental racism in our city. He told us about all of the different projects he worked on, and the different approaches and strategies he uses. It was very inspirational!
GET City Speed Make Challenge
Jan 27, 2020 GET City Speed Make Challenge: GET City Speed Make! Challenge: You have 3.5 minutes to make whatever you can, using the materials on the table! Why this challenge is important. In GET City, we often face time and materials challenges in getting our projects done. SOmetimes that challenge feels exciting, and other …
GET City Panel!
1/17/19 Good afternoon to y’all! Today was the day that the Get City youth got to hear about some projects that me and the other mentors have done, and also of some that the GET City alumni have done. Of course I talked about the Little Free STEM Library, and K and …
Inventing new things and #ASMR slime videos!
11/20/18 Hey guys so for today’s blog your gonna be reading about how Angie, Aaliyah and I made a lollipop engine thing to make optical illusions. We soldered together a motor with two batteries, and then Aliyah had the idea to use the lollipop as a switch so we could turn it on and off. …
Im back!
Blog post 11/8/18 Hey y’all I know that it’s been a while since I’ve wrote a blog post due to the fact that I haven’t been able to come to GET City cause of work. But I’m back now and I’m gonna be writing some more good blogs for y’all. So today the GET City …
