Today me and Stephen were looking up pictures of little free libraries to get some ideas about how we want to make ours. We are excited about being able to share STEM books with everyone! There were some pretty cool ones and we got a really good idea from one of them. I hope we …
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December 4th,2015 Today is the day! Everyone gets to present their stuff they have been making for the past couple of weeks. I can’t wait to see how creative they are, and there are judges here to check it out. The event today will be amazing ’cause there are a lot of newcomers to GET City and they …
Developing our ideas
Today in get city everyone looked at videos of people doing presentations of the inventions they came up with to get ideas about how others present their ideas. Now everyone is adding to the posters maps that they made last week on how to help the problems that they all picked from the survey results that …
Next steps
Today everyone picked a problem from the surveys people took on Tuesday. Then after they picked it they came up with some solutions for that problem. Then they went on to survey monkey and looked at all of the data people did, and they were all working well! I made two posters for get city …
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 …
It’s about perspective!
MSU beats U Mich! Today we did observations on the Msu vs Michigan game on Saturday October 17th to see how observations are shaped by perspective! We observed that the Michigan fans were upset that they lost the game and we also observed that Msu was really happy that the game went really good and …
Why should we care?
Today in GC we are seeing how much energy we are using and what are carbon emissions are by doing the carbon footprint calculator. But, the computers were not working well so we decided to make up carbon footprint dances. It was fun but really silly. We decided we might be “as big as a …
Making the Case
On August 26th, GET City Making 4 Change youth makers made their case for a community maker space to the Board of Directors at their local BCG. They presented their research findings where they covered their examination of other area maker spaces, interviews with makerspace leaders around mid-Michigan, interviews with peers and adults, measurements of …
