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GET City Makerspace Manifesto
GET City Makerspace Manifesto by the GET City Youth (after a 40 hour youth participatory action research investigation into makerspaces, and 2 years of making in a make-shift makerspace) “A place where you can invent, have fun, and make stuff to save the world. You can gather to create and learn using green energy. It …
2015 Showcase! Youth makers share their work!
On May 8th 15 youth makers at the Boys and Girls Club of Lansing show their work to the public! Engineering design prototypes focus on safety and green energy technologies! Come see: Ariele: Umbrella Stephan, Kelih, & DeShawn: Phantom Jacket Kalen: Police Car Jaila & Ahjale: House Alarm Jayla & Ella: Heated Jacket Mikayla: Eye …
House Alarm with Dance Lights
J and her partners are working on a house alarm that also has dance lights if you want them. The house alarm system takes pictures of intruders and also plays music when they walk into the house. I think this is a good idea to invent because people who have an alarm system probably haven’t …
Phantom Jacket Update
Update On Our Invention: We have made progress on our invention. We found out that it is hard work to do our invention! It takes a lot of tasks, thinking and getting the right supplies to do our invention. I learned that we need special supplies to take off all the soldering metal from the …
You may want this jacket!
Today I am going to report on a new jacket. It is something every girl might want. It’s a rape alarm jacket. I love the color (RED) and it has a solar panel sewed into it. You pull the alarm when you want help. And you never have to worry about the batteries going out. …
Two Great GET City Projects!
E has been working on how to make a solar powered shoes. She has been working on this for the past couple of months. J and E have been working on a heated jacket and their heated by solar and re-chargeable batteries. To me I think they have had fun making this. Also for E’s …
Powering up
We are trying to figure out exactly how to power our rape alarm jacket with a solar panel. We’ll either have rechargeable batteries in the jacket that can be charged later with a solar panel, or we will put solar panels on the jacket. Our big questions are how much energy does this alarm need, …
A fashionable and sanitary option for when you are sick
Some of you already know (from the earlier post) I have been working on duct tape fashion line. I have hats, ties, and other accessories. My necktie thermometer is a much more sanitary option than the kind you put in your mouth or ear. The necktie will constantly monitor your temperature so that if you are in the …
Starting our prototypes!
We are starting to build our engineering design prototypes. One of the safety issues I have identified is tripping over untied shoes. I think this important for little kids and for older people, like my gramma. I thought it would be good if we could find an easy and kind of cheap way to make …
