Today is the first day back for get city. So far we are talking about what get city is and what we are going to do through out the school year, some stuff we have came up with pod cast ideas to address issues in the world. One issue they were talking about is transgender …
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Visiting other makerspaces
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 …
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 …
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 …
Making for our families
Today in GET City, we made posters and painted things for our family. We did this to make presents for our family and have a fun party for the end of 2016. Also, we did end-of-year interviews where we talked and the adults learned more about the members of GET City. Some of the things …
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 …
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 …
