On December 18, we had time to celebrate our winners in the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s “Energy Saves” video contest at the Boys and Girls Club of Lansing. The Board of Water and Light awarded GET City members a $2,000 check for one first-place entry and two second-place entries. “We judged videos based …
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Learning climate change and Hurricane Sandy with a board game!
We have investigated about how climate change causes severe weather like Hurricane Sandy for weeks. Today, we reviewed what we have learned with a board game modified from a Korean traditional board game (called Yut Nori). We tossed four wooden sticks in the air and moved our board pieces on the board based on the …
Science and Taking Action!
GET City is about taking action through science. We, the youth of GET City, are working on a story to teach others about this. Some of the ideas that we talk about are: 1) what is taking action, 2) what are some of things that we do in GET City to take action in science …
Winners of the BWL’s Energy Saves Video Contest!
[GET City News, 1st place] Great news! Some of our GET City members are the winners of the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s 2012 Energy Saves Video Contest! GET City members Jalah, Angel, and Autumn won the first prize in the 7th-9th grade category (with their video “BWL GET City news”). Camryn, Chontalice, and LeD’Jiin …
Get City – Get Aware: Ringtones!
In this video we illustrate our idea for a creative tool for helping to create awareness on environmental issues: RINGTONES!
MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Award 2012!
GET City is the recipient of the 2012 MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Award for Digital Learning! This national award, which is given jointly by The Afterschool Alliance and MetLife Foundation, recognizes “new and fresh approaches to help middle school students succeed in the programs, school and life.” Read about it at the Afterschool Alliance! Congratulations …
G-A-S
The four of us are in GET City, and we created a dance where we teach about saving gas. Actually we were thinking about why its important to get off the power grid. We know that most people think about electricity when they think of the power grid, but we were thinking that gasoline is …
Power Sucking Pigs!
We made a movie called “Power Sucking Pigs.” We made this movie to help people understand how much energy they use. The pigs represent “us” using too much energy, so in the movie it causes a blackout. We wanted people to use less energy. It can help prevent CO2 from going into the atmosphere. ~ Quahn & …
Solar Arrest!
The video, Solar Arrest, was made to increase awareness about the need for alternative energy, such as solar energy. We want people to learn that solar energy is a better alternative for energy because it reduces your carbon footprint.
Solar Charging!
Solar charging is the best thing I ever saw. It was so fun I don’t know how to explain it. But I will. I did not know how to solder until today. I learned that there is an alternative ways to charge phones. I learned so many things in get city but the one …
