Today we tried to take some next steps on our invention. We had to split our inventions into four parts: What we are powering? What is our power source? How will we store our power? How will we connect everything? For our phantom jacket, we really want to have some cool lights. We were surprised …
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Feedback cycle day!
We presented our engineering designs today to a panel of experts. We wanted to get feedback on how build the power part of our designs and other technical parts. My design is a duct tape thermometer. Im actually a duct tape expert. I made the hat I’m wearing today. I have also made a cell …
Fun Science … Fcience!
One of the Making 4 Change things we do is make our own websites. So today, we want to tell you about our website! What we want to accomplish in our website is to help other children do fun science (or Fcience!), if it is for school or if it is just for fun. We …
A light up umbrella
Right now, P’s favorite idea for a new design is a light up umbrella. She picked this idea because it is a safety issue that came up in the surveys. She said that people need to see better when it is dark from night time or from the clouds. She also wants the umbrella to have a …
Analyzing our surveys
We ended up getting 62 survey responses last week! Thank you everyone! Today we analyzed the responses to figure out what the surveys were telling us. We know we want to come up with some inventions around safety. But we didn’t really know what people in our community mostly cared about. Our group noticed that the …
What do people in our community care about?
Today we designed a survey to get information on the safety issues that people in our community care about. We put the surveys on our ipads. We are using a survey program that uploads the results immediately so we can see what people are saying. Then we tried to figure out what groups of people …
Making 4 Change
We’re starting a new project in GET City called Making 4 Change. In this project we are going to be community engineering experts. We are going to work on engineering designs that help out our community. We using the tools of ethnography (F-nography, because F stands for fun) and engineering to help us to design …
Earth Day 2014
videos presented at the big event
Green Inventions on Earth Day
Girls with power tools
We have never used a glue gun before, and one of our mentors suggested it might help to keep our bird house stable. But we were a little afraid of it. We didn’t want to mess up our project. So, our mentors said we could play around with it. That made us a little nervous. But, we …
